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TEACHERS AND PUPILS:---YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DURING YOUR SUMMER VACATION REPRESENTING THE INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. VOLUME XXII NUMBER 35 FALLS CITY AS HOSTESS SUCCESSFULLY ENTERTAIN LEAGUE AND VISITORS Prominent Persons Present— Business Kings and Social Queens—Charles H. Moore Is Grateful to Citizens. (By CARY B. LEWIS.) Staff Correspondence. LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The three days' visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League has proven to be one of the most interesting meetings of the day. The night of the banquet, Dr. Washington said to the FREEMAN correspondent that everybody was happy and that in point of attendance, money raised and the joining of the Louisville meeting far surpassed others. The colored citizens opened their hearts to us" and "the League has appreciated hospitality." Speaking further, he said. "The white citizens have been very kind to us and the press has given us great service." The meeting was an impetus to the colored citizens here to take on new courage in climbing the ladder of commercial independence and becoming a mass-owner of the press and applying oneself in those things that make for a strong and noble citizenship. Never before was there so much press comment given a Negro meeting as that of the national Negro Business League. Elliott's editorial committee columns were given in the daily papers, covering every thought and action of the meeting, covering its only object of concern and like a philosopher, did the sage of Tuskegee guide its transactions, ably assisted by Emmett J. Scott, private secretary to Dr. Washington and correspondent. The meeting was held in the Chestnut street Methodist church, one of the largest and handsome structures in the south. Delegates were present from every district, but many were not keen to hear the stories of their successes and failures in a business way that would be helped by the experience of their fellows, the orators, but men who loved to work better for others, and who no grievance to redress or complaints to make for lack of opportunity. They believe with the president, that "One inch is worth more than a yard of complaint." The League was organized to create a greater desire for activity along business and commercial lines, with the central idea of strengthening the race where it was weakest, the struggle for the struggling merchant, to make a place to the farmer who he may better hit to the farmer who he may better his crops; how the cattle dealer, the cotton grower and truck gardener might increase his output, and to tecah in a definite form the value of business enterprise of every description that the land is held. There was every indication that the agreement had, during the past ten years, performed by the mission. There present successful bankers, debtors, lawyers, under-takers, farmers, merchants, merchants, planters and founders of Negro twins. It was seen that drug stores have multiplied everywhere; oil and cotton mills were being developed in many places, and farmers enlarging their acreage; departures and banks abounding in numerous places and banks, and thickly established throughout the South. The addresses showed that industry among the Negroes is developing to an appreciable extent and that he is embarking into business in all parts of the United States. They were level-headed speakers, full of common sense and intelligent, many of them taking into account the editorial comment from the daily papers. The progress of those in attendance was beginning and it was encouraging to hear the uplift addresses of both white and colored individuals. Gov. A. E. Willson, Mayor, James G. Grinstead, F. C. Nunemacher, President of the Board of Trade, and C. C. Works, as the keynote of the league meeting was the success of Booker T. Washington. One of the most themes of his discussion was the progress the past forty years and as a fitting tribute to his success, that in 1913, the fifth anniversary celebration of his emancipation from slavery, should be held in some part of the league. His idea was greatly amplified and from the center of the league while in Louisville, its institution and hospitality of its people, many delegates, including a large number of the league members, may be selected for the place of meeting. It was further suggested that an expedition held showing the industrial and material success of the race during the past forty years. In the limelight of all the discussions that marked Banks Mound Bayou, Miss.; J. E. Banks and William Alexander, Little Rock, Ark.; Nannie H. Burroughs, Louisville, Ky.; Ken H. Burroughs, Tuskegee, Ala.; and others. Space was in these columns inter. Every delegate was pleased with the social side of their state. It was conceded that never before had the history of the league were there so many accomplishments as during this year's meeting. The Louisville citizens completely opened their doors and the delegates welcome. The flag of hospitality hoisted high, Jordan Jackson of Lexington, whirl to going by giving a magnificent touch to the members of the executive committee of night at the home of W. H. Steward of the Eau Claire social followed on the lawn of the T. M. The Economical and Embroidery Clubs entertained with beautiful receptions, the Bum Men's Progress League gave a sum of money at Riverside Park. The banquet Friday night at Liderkrantz Hall was the leading social function of the week. Society people from all sections of the country attended, and the sweltest affair they had ever attended. The large and spacious dance hall was beautifully decorated with potted plants and flowers, also flags and streamers of flowers. The grand march was lightly and on the stage was seated an orchestra behind banks of ferns, potted plants and roses. The grand march was performed by the grand marshal, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Steward, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Napier and others, there were four hundred guests who followed in the procession where an eight-course menu was served. The banquet hall was tastely and beautifully decorated with a color scheme of white and blue, while the dining table was brightening by a pleasant Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, chairman of the banquet committee, acted as toastmaster. Many thoughtful, brilliant and witty toasts were given and for one hour and a half, this proved to be one of the features of the evening. The guests then repaired to the dance hall. Here was given each an opportunity to dance, the country present and took part, in the dancing present wearing handsome gowns of Persian effect. On the following Saturday the young man of the city entertained in honor of the visitors, the country present and took part, in the dancing present wearing handsome gowns of Persian effect. On the following Saturday the young man of the city entertained in honor of the visitors, the country present and took part, in the dancing present wearing handsome gowns of Persian effect. On the following Saturday the young man of the city entertained in honor of the visitors, the country present and took part, in the dancing present wearing handsome gowns of Persian effect. Miss Alberta Robinson, of this city, has returned home after a visit to eastern Kentucky. Miss Bertha Dickerson, of Baltimore, is the guest of Miss Carolyn Stewart, 621 Eighth street. Miss Curtis, a most charming and cultured visitor of Chicago, was the guest of Miss Pearl White. Miss Martha Broadus Anderson, of Chicago, Ill., was the guest of Mrs. Briggs, of West Madison street. Dr. and Mrs. Doram, of Danville, Ky., were in the city last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bullock. Mrs. Agnes McKeney of Chicago, has gone home for two weeks to visit her mother in Louisville, Ky. Miss Elizabeth Slaughter, of Chicago, is in the city, the guest of her mother, Twelfth and Chestnut streets. Miss Mayme Booze, of Mound Bayon, Miss, was in the city attending the many social functions of the week. Mr. and Mrs. King, of Chicago, and Miss Alvers were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, of West Chestnut street. Miss Julia Brown, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the guest of her cousin, Amanda Hughes, on West Chestnut street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Banks and wife were the guests of Miss Nannie H. Burhoughs, during the league meeting. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Ballard, of Lexington, Ky., was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Perry, of West Walnut street. Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore left Tuesday for the East to attend the National Medical Association. He will be gone two weeks. Miss Mayo, of Frankfort, Ky., was in the city last week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Withers, on West Chestnut street. It has not been permanently decided as to the place of next meeting, but it will most likely be at New York City or Boston, Mass. ten, threes. Dr. Norrel and wife, of Indianapolis, visited this city last week and were shown a great deal of social courtesies the guests of Dr. Lower. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Sanders, of Indian- apolis, Ind., were among the guests of the week who registered a delightful stay while in this city. Dr. Mrs. and little Vivian Ballard, of Lexington, spent last week in Louisville, guests of Prof. and Mrs. W. H. Perry, 2111 West Walnut street. --- Mrs. Bessie Allen left for Chicago as the guest of Mrs. Johanna P. Snowden. Mrs. Allen will spend several weeks studying the Chicago Parental system. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Green left on the 21st to attend the K. of P. biannual at Kansas City, Mo. They will visit St. Louis and Chicago before returning home. Hon. J. A. Langford, the architect of Washington, D. C., was a delegate to the league. While here he made a number of friends who became interested in his work. Dr. Joseph Ward, one of the most popular physicians of Indianapolis, Ind., and founder of Ward's Sanitarium of that city, was among the prominent guests of the week. Editor Manning, of the Indianapolis World, was among the Indianapolis delegation. Mr. Manning met a number of his Kentuckian friends and he reported having the time of his life. Prof. Thomas J. Beadles, of Louisville, Ky., has bone to eBton Harbor, Lincoln and Chicago, for a ten days' vacation visited his sister and friends and will return home August 22. Dr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington, B.B. Miller, Booker T. Mr. Emmery J. Scott, Nathan Hunt, David Washington, Charles Steward were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Steward. Col. R. W. Thompson was one of the principal officers during the league meeting, where he the guest of Carb B. Lewis, with newspaper headquarters at 917 West Chestnut street. Misses Harris, of Nashville, Tenn., are in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bellman, of West Chestnut street. Both INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1909. are charming young girls and will be in the city for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Curley Brewer, prominent in social circles in Indianapolis, were among the distinguished visitors during the league and attended the many social functions during the week. Mr. Geo. P. Stewart, editor of the Indianapolis Recorder, and one of the leading forces in the business and political life of Indianapolis, Ind., was in the city a few days during the league meeting. Mr. Horace Morris, a graduate of the Central High School, of this city, but now meets him as among the young men visitors to the league. Mr. Morris is in the postoffice department at Washington. Miss Mayne Locklear, one of the most charming young girls of Indianapolis, Ind., was the guest of Miss Scottie Davis. Miss Locklear was one of the guests at the banquet Friday night and the matinee dance Saturday. Mrs. Peyton Greys entertained a few select friends at whist in honor of Miss Greys, the guest of Miss Wakefield, of Indianapolis. Those press were Miss Bertha Hale, of Cincinnati, Floy Moore and Pearl Fisher. Mr. Charles Baughman, who represents the best thought among the Indianapolis society folk, and who stands well with both white and black alike in his home city, was a visitor at the league meeting and attended all the social functions. The progressive euchre given by Mrs. Andrew Lewis, at 1108 West Chestnut, was a delightful affair. The first prize was won by Miss Miller, second by Miss Lucy Clayton, third, Mrs. Peyton Graves, Funeral arrangements will be made later. Mrs. T. T. Wendell, of Lexington, Ky., Miss Nettie Hancock, California, Dr. R. F. Boyd, Nashville, Hon. Jessie Binga, Chicago, Mrs. Marcellus Lattimore. Mrs. Marcellus Lattimore, Hon. T. T. Hilder, Lexington, Ky., were the guests of Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore. Dr. Summer Furnes and wife and Miss Ada Morris, of Indianapolis, Ind., were the guests of the Morris on West Magazine street. Dr. and Mrs. Furness were enter- at dinner at the beautiful home of Misses Edna Emmy Alexander, on West Magazine street. Misses Crutchfield, Willis, Tyler and Mrs. Robert Hatch were among the charming visitors last week from Indianapolis, Ind. Miss Nettie Walker, of Indianapolis, was also in the party of young men attended the social functions of the week. Miss Maggie M. McAfee, Dora B. Engl. Mary Lizzie Green and Maggie Singleton, of Louisville, Ky., are spending their vacation for the summer at Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Mich., Eastman Springs Chicago, IL., visiting relatives and friends. --- Mrs. Edna Gary, of Cincinnati, Mrs. Georgine Harris, Baltimore, Mrs. P. D. Brown, of Baltimore, Mrs. P. D. Birdie and Willie, of Austin, Tex. Miss Jennie Porter, Mrs. Vaughn and W. M. Porter, of Cincinnati, were the guests of Miss Mary V. Hicks. W. S. Pittman, of Washington, D. C., was another one of the young men who attended the league meeting, Mr. Pittman was the president of the Lincoln Memorial Association, which hopes to erect a $40,000 theater and office building in Washington, D. C. --- Forty strong was Bush's army from Arkansas. They even brought a band of soldiers from the north to most substantial men of the South. William Alexander, of Little Rock, head of the Mosaics, was here in time to see that delegates from his section would be well cared for. --- Dr. E. C. Morris, president of the National aBptist Convention, attended the league meeting and on Wednesday night the league meeting, on Browne Street in Washington, he arose and moved that the rules be suspended and President Washington be re-elected. The motion was carried unanimously. Attorney J. C. Cobb, of Washington, D.C., and Mr. Collins, of the same city, were in league meetings. Both are graduates of the Honor Law Department and are practicing attorneys. Mr. Cobb was recently appointed as one of the assistant district attorneys at Washington, D.C. Rev. A. A. Cozy, Mound Bayour, Miss. Dr. E. C. Morris, Helen, Ark. A. A. Carter, Nashville, and Miss Mattie Morris, Vaughn, 511 Twelfth street, during the league meeting. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Woolfolk, of this city has gone to Rockport, Ind., to visit Mrs. Richardson, of that city. Misses Una and Inez Moore, two charming daughters of Prof. Charles Moore, National Organizer of the Business League, of Greensboro, N.C., and are talented musicians. Miss Eda Rose, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was the guest of Pearl White. Mr. Chester A. Bush, of Little Rock, National Negro Business League, eH is the son of J. E. Bush, one of the leaders of the State of Arkansas and the South. Young Chester is editor of the Mosaic and manager of the printing department and leading spirit of the Mosaics of this country. Mr. and Mrs. Horace D. Slatter, of Hopkinsville, Ky., were among the prominent guests of the week. While here Mr. Slatter sent special news matter to several students at Hopkinsville and the public schools at Hopkinsville and a leader in social circles of that place. They received many social courtesies while in the city. --- Prof. Charles H. Moore, National Organizer of the Business League, stated to the Freeman correspondent that he wished to thank the good citizens of Louisville for their support and dedication derided him in making the recent meeting of the league a most brilliant success. Prof. Moore left Tuesday night for Greensboro, N. C. He was the first to arrive and the last to leave. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jackson, Mrs. Mitchell, Mitchell Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., Mesdames Lilian Henderson, Indianapolis, F. A. Lindsay, Xenia, Ohio, Misses Cheatham Lee and Lillian Johnson, Tuskegee, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cooper, Tenth and Chestnut streets. The guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper attended all the social functions of the week. Charles Banks and his famous Mississippi brigade was here in large numbers, Mr. Banks said they were coming, and he kept his hand out. Louisville gets the credit of holding the greatest meeting yet the state of Mississippi sent up the most members. A whole day was given to the delegates of this state and they came forward with some startling information related to the Negroes in that section of the south. Within two weeks the public schools will open and the high school will have a new coat of paint on the buildings of other schools have been renovated. Miss Mildon Ga., to become the musical supervisor of the schools. It is expected that Miss Oryan will be the teacher and that those in the schools will greatly aid her in making the work a success. Editorials are still being written on the "Servant Girl" question that was discussed by J. E. Bush, of Little Rick, on Thursday night of the league meeting. The Courier Journal gave Mr. Bush a favorable column and a half and the Louisville Times one column, and the newspapers heard from soon. While the address was not published in its entirety, editors of both papers received the manuscript through The Freeman correspondent. --- Four among the most popular young visitors during the league meeting were些 Simmons, St. Louis, Eiffel Simmons, Washington and Clay, Lexington, KY. They were the guests of Mr. James H. Black and wife. Exceedingly courteous were the young men to these visitors and their stay was most pleasant. The team was the Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Black. Other social functions have been tendered them. Hon. George L. Knox, publisher of The Indianapolis Freeman and one of the leading spirits of the National Negro Business League, was present at the league meeting. The delegations that ever went out of Indianapolis to attend a league meeting. The Freeman was the only paper to carry the program of the National League and was given a guide to the business sessions and social functions. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Luriaна aWtison Cooper, the successful chairman of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the women's guests last week Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, of Indianapolis, Mrs. Lindsley, of Xenia, Ohio, Mrs. Jennele, of Miss Jones, Mrs. Tuskegee, Ala., Aaron Johnson and J. T. Moore, Nashville, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Johnson, Mrs. and Mr. Mitchel Johnson, of Lexington. --- The officers and members of the Local League, including the executive committee, acquired themselves with great praise last week, opening and at the banquet, he did not know anything about the local affairs, but they had kept it from the national body and will be held soon, at which time all the bills will mube presented to the league and all the money is expected to be reported and it is hoped that everything will come out in "apple pie" order. It seems as though the NewBerea movement that was on fire here some weeks ago is petering out. For awhile all you could hear was Dr. Bond and the new school of the National Negro Business League. It is going to be planted on the grounds, next that a barbecue would be held in the school tree was going to be planted on the grounds and where is the movement, where are the grounds and where is Prof. Frost? Prof. Williams, formerly of this city, kept insisting in Frost and his attaches. It its a good thing, don't let it die. Among the young men that took a prominent part in the business league was Noah D. Thompson, Chicago, Ill. He was sent as a special representative of the National League, this country. His coming here was not only a recognition of merit and standing of Mr. Thompson with the company, but shows that the National League is taking on national recognition this country. Mr. Thompson escorted Mrs. Booker T. Washington through the shopping districts of this city, as he did while Mrs. Washington was in Chicago. Mr. Thompson was elected as an officer of the JACKSONVILLE FACTORS DR. GEORGE THOMAS COLEMAN. There never is a time or condition in which a young man of sound mind and body can not rise to higher usefulness, ability, opportunities, and has purpose, plan, push and persistence. The cause of most failures originates within the individual himself. Every normal person has inherent strengths and has purpose, plan, push and persistence understood by the subject of this sketch. He was not born to wealth and high station, but of honorable parents. He was born in Texas, and was born in Fort Worth, Texas, January 7, 1884. He was trained to work and look ahead. He attended the public school, and graduated. Afterwards he attended Shaw University, then went to Chicago and took a full four years' course in medicine, graduating in 1888. He was a post college student in hospital work in the spring of 1899, when he came to Jacksonville and PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY-SIX MONTHS, 85C; ONE YEAR $1.50. spotted Dr. Kenniebrew, where he is aiding in one of the best practices in Illinois among our physicians. NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE THE MALLORY BROTHERS. Few theatrical people are more widely and none more popular in this country than the Mallory brothers, who were on the American stage for a number of years, having left. It only three years ago. These boys, unlike many of our theatrical people, have made good use of the money they earned. They now possess some of the best property owned by colored people in this section of the country. They have eight rental houses in the city and one large two-story brick building in MALLORY BROS. the business part of the town, worth not less than $8,000. All of their property is well elevated, and is always occupied by navy tenants. Since they left the stage they have been engaged in the broker business, and they run a first and second-hand mercantile business, being mostly among the white people. They are constantly in demand also to furnish music for entertainments for white and colored, as they keep an orchestra of eight persons constantly on hand. Madam Maza Brooks (Mrs. Brooks) has perished in a dispute with the leading (white) theater in Jacksonville. CUPID MOSELEY. Born at Bedford, Tenn., 1880, and reared at Shelbynville, Tenn., Mr. Masleyee has seen some of the hard days of his career, that hard work is, and early learned that nothing valuable can be gained without hard work. He moved to a blacksmith trade, and lived there until he was thirty-one, when he removed to Jacksonville, where he now resides. He first obtained a job where he worked nine years, after which he opened a business for himself. He does a very large business, and he reputates himself as horse trainer. He has trained and bred some very fine stock, and at the Illinois State Fair he took the prize for his owner of "Richard Yates," a blooded stallion which he has trained to perform manure. He is noted over this part of the country as the greatest performer of his kind. REV. L. E. CHRISTY, Rev. L. E. Christy, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. Church at Jacksonville, IL., is a former Indianapolis resident. He was connected with the public schools, and for many years with the Indianapolis World. He also served as clerk under the mayorship administration of Mr. Thomas Taggart. His career as minister has been quite successful. He established Wayman Chapel in this city, and commenced his ministerial work here. For five years he was pastor in East St. Louis, IL., where he made a fine record. He is now pastoring at Jacksonville, IL., and for several years has been secretary of the Illinois Conference. CLARKSVILLE. TENN. Mrs. S. M. Sims and Miss Lena West have returned to St. Louis.....Mrs. Jerdie Milan and Mrs. Linda Wilson have accepted a vacation that convened at Guthrie. P. Lignon has gone to St. Louis for a two weeks' visit to his home and Mrs. Kate Clay has returned to Chicago, after visiting her sister, Mrs. E. Tompkins.....Miss Ollie Jenkins and Miss E. Tompkins have visited in the city, who returned to Memphis. Public Library 1-09 NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF RACE'S AGENCY In the Hospitable Blue Grass State—Dr. Washington's Clarion Key-note-Unanimously Re-elected President. (Special by Thompson's National News Bureau.) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 21.—All things considered, the tenth annual session of the Business League here this week, was lauded finest and most profitable of the series, which began in Boston in 1900. The citizens of Louisville had been heralded for their wisdom as a people noted for open-handed hospitality and generous pubs spirit. On this occasion they not only sustained this time-honored reputation, but also made happy homes, a commodious auditorium for the meetings, and a program of entertainment that kept the stranger within their gates constantly on the go from the city. At the O.K. E. church on Wednesday morning until the curtain fell upon the magnificent banquet room, the Friday night at spacious Liederkunst Hall. The Ohio Falls metropolis more than kept the promise made. The delegates in attendance numbered unequivocally far exceeding the registration at any previous day. The quality as well as in quantity, they measured up to the high standard set by the organization, and the quality of Negro activity in the area of business, industries and the professions was ably represented and the addresses gave evidence of careful preparation, abounded in the details of the impressions upon all who heard them. The Louisville convention marks a distinct step forward for the National Negro Business League, and the spirital sense, and the perpetuality of the organization has been more firmly established than ever before. Throughout the organization, the best was manifested on the part of both races and all classes of citizens and to the final day's proceedings indicated as the most successful and which characterized the first. At every point the magnetic influence of the personality of Dr. Booker T. Washington was in evidence and at no time was there a difference. GOVERNOR WILLISON RUS CONVENTION WELCOME. The principal feature of the opening day's proceedings was the addresses of welcome on the part of the people of Louisville and the State of Kentucky. David L. Knight, president of the local Negro Business League, called the first Tuesday morning in the auditorium of the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church, said to be the largest church edifice owned by colored people in the State. After a meeting in the courthouse, the cordial sentiment of the community toward the National League, Mr. Knight presented the Hon. Augustus E. Willson, Gov. Mike Brown, and the faithful address of welcome on behalf of the State. Gov. Willson's remarks were pitched on broad lines, and his declaration against the practice of special pleading in the state was a common citizen—urging that every American be placed on his merits as a man and given a fair and square deal, aroused the concern of many in the state, constantly interrupted the eminent speaker. Attention was called to the fact that this was the first occasion where the state had to address the presence of a governor of a State at the meetings held in the various sections of the country. At the conclusion of Gov. Brown's address, the Knox, publisher of the Indianapolis FreeXON, endorsed the broad-gauged sentiments expressed, lauded his own State of the Union address, and protected former Governor Taylor of Kentucky, and moved a vote of thanks for the encouraging stand taken on the problem of human rights by Gov. Willson, other addresses of welcome were delivered as follows: On behalf of the city, Mayor James F. Grinstead, of Louisville; on behalf of the citizens of Louisville, Rev C. H. Parrish; on behalf of the University; on behalf of the colored public schools, Prof. A. E. Meyzeek, principal of the Eastern School; on behalf of the Negro bar, Hon. Albert S. White, dean of the Negro school, Rev. C. H. Parrish; on behalf of the Negro business League, Rev. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Board, Mayor Grinstead bespoke the excellent character and praised their public-spirited efforts to make better environments for themselves and their children. Rev C. H. Parrish turned over the keys of the city, pointed to the races in this community, and closed by quoting an unique poem on the attractiveness of Kentucky land, writtenOME by the common condition and influence of the schools was told by Prof. Meyzeek; Kentucky's brilliant roll of honor on the bench, at the bar and in the arena of national legislation was called by Dean White, and Rev. C. H. Parrish; the common condition and influence of the local League, each extending a whole-souled welcome to the greatest convention that has ever been held by our community; the common condition and influence of the Lovisville Church Society, of one hundred voices, under the direction of Prof. N. R. Harper. GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS. Immediately after the preliminary exercises, the regular program was entered upon. C. A. Napper delivered a practical address on "The Negro Farmer," and informing points were brought out in the dis- Continued on Page Four. THE WORLD NEEDS MEN Negroes Want Real Men And Not Humbugs. I do not want to be personal, but I can not refrain from asking what has become of those erstwhile race champions, Sweart, and others. I ask the question in order to answer it by saying, they have been overtaken by mere common sense. The red-hot advocate of this or that, the ranting, tearing, and biting, of the American that sore are on the scrap heap. Dick Greener made his little pile, and will quietly live out the rest of his life. He may sometimes think of his fool days, but most of the time he will, you must quiet and happy. T. McCants may turn up as President of President of some land, or do some other stunt, but he cut out the race problem racket when he sailed. Shrewd Charles Anderson only works it enough to keep his job, he never felt any problem, and never will. T. Timothy, he may break out in a raving or so now and then, but he never butted into any real genuine race problem racket during all of his high jinks or calm Wise B. T. sits at ease, with the cool Atlantic fanning him, and thinks out the "thinks" which will help to pacify the country when the bugs start to stirring it this fall. The first is no race problem or anything else to raise a fuss about. The people of this country, black of white, have simply to go on about their business and attend to it, and not project a lot of cranky ideas into their views of what they do other people who all will be well. The educated Negro has got to sit down at the feet of Uncle Tom and learn the good old lesson of knowing how to be whatever you are and going on with a jolly laugh and an unblinking eye. The same as the Negro quits thinking about himself as a Negro and about the white man as a white man, and simply goes on about his business, the quicker will he get rid of all problems stuff and nonsense. People who like black horses and black dresses and black suits will not find it very difficult to like black faces, if they do not run across disagreeable odors or unpleasant manners. The cowboys will haze a lad with a "billed shirt," no matter if he is a Duke of the average American firecracker-exploding lad will haze any bumpless person, white or black. History affords no instances where individuals have been treated better than the world treats the Negro who goes on an amoral road. There is no difference between one individual and another so far as skin or color is concerned, except what is made of it by thinking about it. The young person on the shoulder way is a poor way to go on the rugged path of real life. It means lots of black eyes and broken noses. The young people of the race who have good common sense, and most of them have, simply join the crowd and get in the push, and do and live and think and are like the rest of the people in the community where they live. The old-time gang who decides proper actions and proper social doings is simply forgotten by the wise young folks, and he only has the dying and the groaning to hear his sermons. The preacher to a good job who can not get them with the buy-a-property or go-in-business bug, is a dismal failure. Few communities have enough fools in them to pay much to support a calamity howler or any What the world wants and will have are red-blooded folks who have it in them to get in the bunch that is making the fight. High-salaried Big Guns who run and attack, the best men, the white man and try to be Czar when holding the gavel over the black man, are not exactly what the best people will stomach in these days. The world wants the Negro to be a man in a mere dress and the Negro wants his big one to be simply mere men, not D. D's and humbugs, but merely real men. J. M. HENDERSON, M. D. WORKING THEIR WAY OUT. Afro-Americans Breaking Away From Crowded City Life. Without the beating of any tomtoms or the sounding of any loud alarms, there is being built up within a few miles of Philadelphia, at Sharon Hill, an Afro-American institution to our people from the crowded city streets. The pastors of the churches and others of the race are interesting themselves in building up the town, and bedding them with the love and care that has been purchased, some of our enterprising business men have recently purchased the old Nonsail farm and will parel it off into building lots. The church in Sharon Hill, African Baptist Church in Sharon Hill, of which the Rev. C. T. Wilcher is pastor, recently purchased two lots on Clifton avenue, which is to be about the center of the village and upon it is to be built a new church. In the neighborhood of the proposed church there are springing up many business enterprises, such as grocery stores, restaurants, barber shops, real estate, and near by are several large truck farms. In order to afford employment to the members of the race, a brick manufacturing company has been incorporated and is now up a yard at Sharon Hill.—Exchange. In Jacksonville, Fla., we are fourteen Afro-American physicians, ten graduated pharmacists, eight drug stores, sixteen trained nurses, eight drug banks, banks, industrial insurance companies, newspapers and six lawyers, and they are getting on splendidly and successfully. There are also 185 churches, ten public schools and three denominational schools, two schools in a flourishing condition, a splice of the many schools, there are hundreds of mean, impudent, worthless youths roaming the streets at will who never attend any kind of school except that which leads to degradation and destruction. Exchange. Some people condemn whisky, but we have heard some mighty the prayers made upon the inspiration of it.—The Richmond Planet. Come, John, you are growing irreverent. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Now and then some one takes a crack at the Declaration of Independence, insisting that all men are not "created equal," and, in thus calling attention to the expression, gives it new meaning. Thomas Jefferson, we take it, meant what he said. The Declaration of Independence is strictly a political document, the political utterance of the day, when the colonies were breaking away from the mother country. He evidently had in mind the sense of independence as opposed to dependence—communities, states, as well as individuals, since communities, states were individuals in the aggregate. This equality, we say again, is political, is social, in so far as the social encroachs the domain of the political. It has to do with the right to be governed, the individual's coming and going—his right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"—to take his place in general society according to his merit and in answer to the popular demand. The pursuit of happiness, we suspect, means more than its unassuming face would indicate—the pursuit of the means to happiness, which is work, is included. On these hangs all the laws as they concern all the laws as they concern all the laws to his fellowman. Summing it up, the rights of the individual are encircled; the circle will not intersect that of another. Then we have rights in common where one individual takes his chances with another. Running for office is a right in common, or enjoying any of the privileges brought about by public consideration. Thomas Jefferson said, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Did he think of the Negro? Did he leave him out of the calculation? If he did, and were he here today, he would be appalled. The handful of Negroes that nestled amid the colonies, insignificant, obscure, has increased wonderfully. Thomas Jefferson said "all," not some. He referred to man—the thing in the image of his Maker. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," that splendid trinity of manhood principles. We prefer to think of Jefferson as knowing what he was doing, that when he sat down and deliberately penned for all time, as Moses might have done on a tablet of stone, there were no hurried measures. Every thought was welled in the balance. We feel to think the Negroes were included, Crispus Attuck and the rest of them. Great men see much more than men not so great. A sweep of the eye of the general takes in the field. As when Sheridan hastened back to Winchester when twenty miles away, the author of the poem characterizing it says, "What was done, what to do, glanced to him both." Then follows what is not pertinent to the point, but a most beautiful climax: "Then striking his spurs with a ter rible oath, The line of retreat troops paused, because The sight of the master compelled them to pause." The point is to show that Thomas Jefferson was qualified for "noting the sparrow." "Not a sparrow falleth but that its God doth know," still carrying out the idea of the knowledge of the small things, the humble by the great. WILL MAKE A TEST CASE. The Republicans of Annapolis, Md., are exercising a little precaution in regard to the Negro vote of that city. The last Legislature enacted a law the purpose of which was to reduce the Negro vote. The requirements are that the voter must be a naturalized citizen, possess with property taxed at $500 or have had a grandfather who voted or could have voted prior to 1868. Report has it that the law, if carried out in Annapolis, will disfranchise 700 Negroes and make the city surely Democratic. The inference was that the law, like all the recent ones, would not be attacked. The Republican leaders, after consulting counsel, decided that the United States Court had authority. Accordingly they have planned to have a test case at the earliest convenience. It goes without saying that the movement at Annapolis will be vigilantly watched, since the same principle runs through all of the recent election laws and constitutions bearing on the elective franchise. The Republicans, whom report has it will see that the court passes on the law, of course are greatly interested—the offices are at stake. It's worth while taking a chance at the court since the city is reliably Republican with her 700 colored voters. Regardless of that, a great question will be settled. And yet the matter is to be viewed with some alarm. A decision either way means very much. It is said that no question is settled until it is settled right. We do not think the Negro voting question is settled, because it is not settled right; that is, in accordance with our laws. Bpt are we in a condition to have things done as they are writ? Not hardly. Not as long as everything else is out of joint, having in mind those communities where the race is in large numbers. Steps might as well be taken to gain admission to the leading hotels, public concerns of all kinds, railroad coaches, street cars, waiting rooms, parks, pleasure grounds, all of which are as intact as the book of seven seals. We are in for the greatest freedom to the individual—no single thing that is a right denied. But in the spirit of sweet reason we will not be blind, even if popular to be so. If the attack means the beginning of a movement to throw down the entire system of race discrimination, it would appear a good thing if heartily and generally supported by white men. If by the few, as most movements have been started by the few, it is still a good thing in theory, since the many might be won to it. But in practice, if the idea is to make a fight on discrimination, it would be more advisable to proceed along the line of the least resistance. There are oppositions by custom, not by the law, where is represented the determined and predetermined wills of men, proving that they are ready to sacrifice very much before changing their views. These strong castles are to be attacked and taken, but not until the capture of the outer works, which are not nearly so strong. At this stage of our country's progress relative to its white or black citizens, the blacks will do well to feel their way. Experience has taught that nothing has been gained by bulling matters. On another occasion we said that between the quarrels of the white men the Negro would come into his own. It is by no means assured, but it has been the history of the country. It may be that nothing can again happen that will throw white men against white men as in 1861. We would not wish to have it so. We don't think many would wish for such a time of whatever race. But there can possibly come the crushing conviction of truth and right out of a malestrom of opinion and sentiment driven relentlessly home. The pulpit, the press, the forum can thunder as from "Sinal" if they will. They will not, dare not, and perhaps should not, unless supported by the great majority of well-thinking people. The cause of the American Negro, in the most part, will have to be submitted to the American people. What they think as a unit is the law when it comes to certain things, and against which courts will be invoked in vain. Again we lay down the unassailable proposition that when the people are right the laws are right. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Cars make connections at Seymour with trains on the B. & O. and Southern Indiana railroads for all points east and west of Seymour. For rates and full information, see agents and official time table folders in all cars. General Offices, - Columbus, Ind. C. H. & D. 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Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, to refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be just as good, but insist on getting the genuine. PRICE 15 CENTS. Manufactured by THE LINCOLN POMADE COMPANY, NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep the pomade in silver or stamps of THE LINCOLN POMADE GO. Department D. Norfolk. Va. and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Dr. C. A. Lucas, Office 319 W. Vermont St. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 a.m. 2 to 4 p.m. 7 to 9 p.m. Sundays, 2 to 3 and 7 to 8 p.m. New Phone 4571. Indianapolis, Ind. Watches $6.50 buys a fine 15-jewelled Watch, "thin model." I have a limited number at this price. Each watch is guaranteed a good timekeeper. Come in and let us show you this watch before they are all gone. DIAMOND MERCHANT, 15 N. Illinois St. The Claypool Hotel is Opposite Me N. A. MOORE. Pres. W. H. ALLERDIC Moore Groce Pure Food Phones: NEW, 892, 891. OL0, 892, 891. FRANK W. FLANNER. FUNERAL L 320 North Illinois St New phone 641. Propriet Butler's R Meals and Lunches Serv 419 Indiana Ave., = J. C. W FUNERAL Good service. Reasonable Old Phone, Prospect, 322. } 1408 Pros The Avery College Offers special inducements to young colored making. Millinery and Domestic Science. with this institution, offers splendid oppo- men to become trained nurses. Uniforms laundry and a monthly compensation are o dress all communications to JOSEPH D. MAHORNEY, Supt. A. ROTHSCHILDS Garment Cleaning and Pressing Pantatiorium. First class work guaranteed. Colored help employed. Prices Reasonable. Otto Aldendorf, Fancy Groceries, Vegetables and Fruits in Season. 501 Agnes St., Indianapolis. Old Phone, Main, 2299. Funeral Directors DANVILLE, ILL. The Freeman can be secured at any time at 602 South Entan, or Camden Station baggage room. Harry M. Cubbins, representative. $1.00 Buys this Fire Proof Furnace Stand. Honey Bucket This device eliminates the usual method of ushering in air to prevent a charcoal furnace from burning in the floor. This device also dangerous method by placing the furnace on a safe foundation. It's God send to everyone who needs a necessity and should should be in every home and tailor shop Made of steel and lasts a life time. Big discount to agents. Manufactured and for sale only by MAXEY C. COOPER, Selma, Ala., U. S. A. A Word to the WISE WE ARE CUTTERS AND DESIGNERS We carry one of the largest lines of high-grade woolens on the market. We do all piece work here. We guarantee fabric, fit, style and workmanship. We take all the risk. You take none. Give us a Look The Deutsch Tailoring Co. 113 S. Illinois Street. KARSTADT BROS. DYE WORKS Indiana's Best and Most Modern Dyeing and Cleaning Works. Main office 1435 N. Illinois street. Branches 240 Virginia Ave. 218 N. 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WEBB, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Meat Market. New phone 1636 Old, Main, 7284. 904 N. Ill. St. Indianapolis J. WALTER HODGE, REAL ESTATE, Fire, Accident and Health Insurance. See me for bargains if you are looking for a home or investment. Cash or easy payments. BOTH PHONES 1173. 536 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. Imperial Barber Shop, 821 E. Washington St. Springfield, Ill. Your trade solicited. Best of attention given to the students. Hair Cutting a Specialty. E. H. Mitchell. Chiriopist: H. Terrell. Shoe Shining Artist. Barbers: G. A. Barkalee, Mgr.; John Davis The Freeman can be found at Pughsly's cigar store and news depot at Atlanta, Ga., 4. Central avenue. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER New OrleansNews BY V. P. THOMAS. NEW. ORLEANS, L. August 14—The Business League meeting in Louisville, Ky., last week, seems not to have been heard of even by Mr. Oscar Dupree, one of the most successful business men of the académie des arts de la dairy business on a pretty large scale. An idea of the business he is in may be more useful than the running expense in more operating of his dairy is not less than $18 a day for feed alone for his cows and horses. He has a farm in New York, the upstarturb of New Orleans known "Camp Parapet," in the parish of Jefferson, where one may see as fine a set of milch cows as one could wish to see. Everything in the business is just as spick and span as a new pin. Mr. Dupree is one of the most experienced dairymen in this section, and is one of the few men here who have membership in the Dairymen's Union, composed almost wholly of white men. There are five colored men in the Dairymen's Union, Mr. Dupree is the one of the number who has by far the largest business. There are, as a matter of fact, no dairymen, but a colored man who has more fresh milk every day. Mr. Dupree is this city on the individual plan. But Mr. Dupree is an energetic and enterprising man, everything about him is busy, from getting up early to having a family of fine children, girls and boys. He does a business of something like $10,000. He is working to do even a much larger business than his family, talking much. He prefers to go ahead doing business than to be talking about it. At the present time Mr. Dupree has over sixty acres of land, a hundred gallons of milk a day, which he milks from fifty cows. Mr. Dupree intends soon to increase the number of his milk cows to accommodate the additional number. Mr. Dupree was the first of the Crescent City dairymen to establish a dairy out in the suburbs of the city, and his wife, Marjorie, was the first others—all whites—who have, within the past few months, been building up fine places in the neighborhood. BUILD UP, BUT DON'T TAKE DOWN ANY. There has been some talk of doing away with the Southern University, the only high school the State has for the higher education, the whole commonwealth of Louisiana, and the accepting of the promise of the school authorities that more elementary schools for the colored youths would be given the right to attend, the such schools are so scarce at the present time. The talk of more schools sounds all right to a people that need more schools so very bad, but one bird in the hand is worth more than ten in the bush. While the other bird in the bush is worth rural districts, it needs as bad more high schools like Southern University, where those of our children who have finished grades and are in school are small and young and work hard at the higher grades to a point that will render them thoughtful and intelligent citizens of the State. Those who favor the doing away with the only high school the State has for the higher education order that there may be more elementary schools in the country districts, certainly have not thought of the injury the edu- THE REAL DUNBAR. After the death of an individual, we feel to keep back the hurting things of the individual's life. In fact, there's no necessity for dragging forth what would be considered a torture, a punishment, a sleep, the individual cannot know it, and the relatives and friends are to be spared information that reflects on those in what may well be considered the sacred state. The feeling is universal, the state. The feeling is universal. The whole world seems agreed on the things—sorrow and respect for the dead. Civilization shows forth more of these—real sorrow— manifested sorrow, however, changing into tokens. The sorrow tokens, the bell rings, the funeral note, flowers, finally the monument towering. And this is as it should be, since the departed are of the ages, and the world in which they live that they are not forbidden, although dead. But in spite of our reverence for those that no longer have their walks among men, there are those whom we would have been greater than men from a creative standpoint, god-men; we feel to priate into their lives, their very private lives, foreswearing them. That is to say, the reputation of the genius as such shall not conflict with that of the man as such. On the theory the world has not spared its lives, the genius has not been poets, the musicians above all have been laid bare to the world, and the world has been faithful to its contract of preserving inviolate the genius. It may hold its own in the world, but not in the quality of the genius. Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, Poe, Burns, the very leading luminaries of the world are rated according to their genius. The world "is in good shape, but put under "regularity" of lives; it doubtless deplores it; it perhaps ignores it in the classes of individuals mentioned, condoning at times, however, knowing that the minds are due to them. Paul Lawrence Dunbar was one of those intense natures who could not long obey a man, but he could think, should feel too squeamish in speaking of him. He is highly enthroned, the poet king of his race, and when considered from a world viewpoint was of its own merit. He was real Dunbar can not add luster to his writings, but in knowing the individual, hidden springs are sometimes revealed, showing what actuated, perhaps, in such a young age to Dayton a few days did so out of the respect they had for his ability. The estimable white gentleman that would not have been able to find where all of him mortal lay, and the others who labored with him, knew him as the genius, knew him as the man. Their ardor was unabated until they had done so, and by some visible sign with the future ages. Dunbar was Bohemian in the sense the term is applied to the irregular lives of students artists. Societies and slum looked upon Dunbar as a learning center. If he had been in Indianapolis, Indiana avenue would have been a prime favorite with him. He would have been seen mix with students learning carpentry all to account. He was fond of jolly company, but saw much more than the jolly company. He saw human nature, that which he delved in, giving back to indigenous languages—the philosopher-poet. Dunbar visited the "red light" district, he saw the terrible sacrifices—was influenced by them—was moved and entertained at Dunbar's house. He was already his; he wrote. Paul was convivial; didn't mind toying with Bacchus, but never falling in a fine fellowship which dightened men wining the genius. Dunbar knew that his fame is safe. His soul part as it concerns his hereafter on earth is established in its niche in the hall of men's memory, yea, their hearts where it will not be exchanged. Some of this community will remember the poet, what a hail fellow well met he was. He seemed to know no difference between individuals, yet through it all maintained himself well. He was always Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet. This, in turn, lion on his part, seemingly, but by superhero of man that old in whatsoever crowd. Dunbar was nearly black in color. But somehow it didn't have the same meaning with him as it did with others. He reminded one of the tales he has read of the men of the world, the men of ability when in Europe. Even in his own country—America—his card was his pass to the best literary groups. He was pronounced poet by American eminent author and world audience. These saw Dunbar the genius, one who was able to add something to the stock of world thought, one who had the ability to assuage grief, to teach and especially where it was most needed—to the sometimes helpless sons of Ham. "FCLLOWING THE COLOR LINE." "Following the color line." Up in Lansing, Michigan, a restaurant keeper displayed the following sign in front of his place: "We do not cater to colored cational interests of the colored people would suffer by the letting of that only high school get away from their children. The colored people must hold on to what they have, and, if possible, get more school facilities for their children from the State. If Southern University ever gets away from the Negro people, it will be a long journey, and enjoying anthikh lige it anywhere else in the State. It will be the cry in every parish: "We do not want any high school nor stand for any being among us." If it is believed that it would be better for the Negro youths that they be prepared authorities of the country, let the school authorities facilities for the educatino of the colored children in the rural districts, and they will not have long to wait to see the advantages of the / opportunities offered them. If the colored people flock to the towns and to this city from the rural disadvantages for their children, as well as for the larger measure of protection from outright imposition which is one of the cares outrages commonly suffered by the race in the South, No race of people on the face of the earth has ever been required to complain less than an anthikh lige in this land, and no race has ever in this land the world done so little complaining about injustice and wrongs inflicted upon it. THE Y. M. C. A. MAKING 6000. A rainy Sunday proved to be a very much more successful than was expected. Rev. R. E. Jones, the president, was the principal speaker on the occasion, and he always a good one, that is better. He raised. There was not much of an attendance, but the sum collected was something that was hardly expected that half of that sum would be realized from an attendance no larger than the one out at the time. The money was wanted to meet a need and to be paid during the coming week. On Monday afternoon the game of baseball between the Leans and the Fats at Carrollton Baseball Park, for the benefit of the league, was a very amusing affair. The sight such large men as Mr. Robinson, Mr. Morris, Prof. Colwell, Dr. Aristide Dejole, Dr. L. T. Burbridge, Dr. Peters and other featherweights, was a sight worth going somewhere to see. It was remarkable how well the large men kept in sight in the game, and how much they weigh. Morris weigh more than three hundred each, but the way they got over ground when it was their turn to run in the game, and how much they look like they were just taking their first lesson in the sprintin gbusiness. The score was as follows: Leans, 21; Fats, 17. On July 11 the St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. W. Washington, D. D. pastor, held a rally and raised $631.6. A friend and his congregation friends raised $1,080. On Rev. Washington took up a mortgage note against his church of $1,060. In early October he expects to pay another note of $648. In early October his church turned in $236 to the church debt fund. people; if you are a coon are, busy." It was the same as flaunting a red rag in the face of a bull—a race riot was nearly precipitated. The news of the sign spread like wildfire. The colored people made many demonstrations as evidence of their displeasure. Trouble for a time threatens to the vision of the people heads prevailed. As the result of a conference on hundred and fifty of them called on the chief of police. The chief took up the matter with the restaurant keeper, following which the offending sign was removed. Clearly the restaurant man went out of his way to offend the colored people of Lansing. His privilege of refusing to serve was his, a doubtful one, but a thing of custom, and which is sometimes better in than those of the state books when it comes to the observation of things ought to convince the too optimistic that some color prejudice is everywhere. And, indeed, we may as well conclude that there is reason for it, and reasonable reason, according to the training. Most colored people have begun to look at the situation in a sensible way. It is well that they do. As long as they are generated, they do, they do, can go and come freely, the restraint of the kind mentioned will not be so much. The old text ever comes to mind, and to the extent that the restraint makes opportunities. And by the way, this does not mean the opportunity is for the few or those going into business, but for the many when it comes to patronage. We are to be influenced by the laws or the customs in operation where all are swayed hitherto by the hegazes of business, and not one or two or half a dozen. We feel it necessary to say, as we have said so often, that the system is un-American, applying only to one race of people; if it were not for the good arising out of our heavy burden, giving no chance for apologies for its existence. The race is forced into business, forced out of that sickly dependence, forced into the Americanism that only asks for the help. The Negroes of Lansing are hurt anent their initiation, but they will profit; it is the thought. It will nerve some against passing out their money to those that reject it. This means that the town will get busy with the shops of all kinds where they sell food, drink, and white restaurant keeper. Something will be sacrificed, but why not, under the circumstances? If colored people are to enquire the small places where they work, what should much anyhow, beyond the mere shadow. As long as colored girls and boys can not serve as cashiers and such like nothing much is in their lives, they can eat, if we will look at the matter right. HAS TROUBLE IN GETTING HIS WIFE THROUGH. Information has it that a woman with one-sixteenth Negro blood in her veins was driven from door to door in Muskogee, Okla., because her husband was a white man. The here follows what was said. "The woman was driven from her in her is her thick black wavy hair. The moment it was found out that she had African blood in her veins, then trouble began. The day following the rumor the woman was driven from Mr. Uphoff, the husband, Mr. Uphoff admitted that his bride, although one-sixteenth part Negro, was as good as the wife of any white man in Muskogee, and far more accomplished and physically acceptable than most of them; an dhaut was driven from her in her veins." His bride being educated and refined. "Mr. Uphoff, a real estate dealer of East St. Louis before their marriage three months later, announced his intentions of buying a home. Side residence section of Muskegow, but in every office he went to, friend and foe alike, he heard the same words: 'Not in the market.' He even tested the jim crow section, but he didn't. The section reserved for white passengers, but the conductor respectfully motioned the young couple to the 'jim crow section.' Mr. Uphoff, with his bulldog tenacity, has a lot of experience. The public is sincere in condemning his wife without a trial, by offering to place her on the platform in the convention hall. Each ticket admits one person and entitles the bearer to vote. He reads: 'Sorry, you are married Negro.' "Uphoff promised to retire to the country if the vote is against him. Every nation becomes accustomed to the Negro and his ways now. When you die and go to heaven, you'll find him there. So acquaint yourself with him now." WHAT OTHERS SAY OF US. San Francisco, Cal., July 15, 1969. Editor FREEMAN. Indiana Univ. Ind. Dear Sir: Enclosed find the amount for another year's subscription for THE FREEMAN. Its pages contain. May they contain more and more good, wholesome food for thought. Yours for success. O. H. HAMMONDS. Care Weather Hub. GROUNDS OWNED BY THE PEOPLE Property Held in Trust by the State Board, Subject to Laws of Legislature—How Farmers and Breeders .Name Members of the Board—The Purposes of the State Fair. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture is organizing the fifty-sixth State Fair, and during the week of Sept. 6 the exposition will be the center of interest for the people from the farms as well as from towns and cities. Under the law which created it, and under which the State Board has operated since 1851, the fair belongs to the people of Indiana, as does all the property in the board's possession. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture, the organized force which conducts the fair, cannot sell or dispose of the exposition grounds, mortgage or encumber the property, or issue bonds against it, without the consent of the legislature. The board holds all of the property controlled by it in trust for the benefit of the people of the state, notwithstanding the fact that the paper title is in the board. The membership of the board comes directly from the agricultural element of the state. It is the farmers and livestock breeders who organize and who keep alive the county and district fair and agricultural societies of Indiana, and the president of these societies, representing the farming classes of their communities, elect the members of the State Board of Agriculture. These members are elected at the annual meeting held at the state house in January of each year. The State Board is made up of sixteen members and for convenience, and following the plan of all such state organizations, Indiana is divided into sixteen agricultural districts, similar to the congressional districts. The board so elected selects a president and vice president from its own membership, changing these officers every year. A secretary, a treasurer, and a general superintendent are also elected, being chosen for their personal qualifications. The other members of the board occupy an advisory capacity, and during the period of the fair they serve as superintendents of the departments. This plan of organization for the board was evolved by Governor Joseph A. Wright and recommended by him to the legislature of 1851, after the State Board had for several years been managed by a commission of five members who received their appointment at the hands of the governor. The members have absolutely no personal interest in the property of the board or its receipts, their sole ambition is to conduct a high-class fair. It is common for a member to continue in the service of the board for a number of years, for as time goes by his experience as a department manager makes him of increasing value to the fair. Yet the personnel of the board is constantly changing through the retirement of gray-haired members because of long service, with fresh blood coming on the board from the county and district agricultural societies. There are very few members on the State Board this year who held membership ten years ago. The State Fair is far from being a source of financial gain for the men who have to carry the burden of its responsibilities. A member attends two sessions of the board a year, the longest period of the sessions being while the fair is in preparation and in actual operation, and the other period is two or three days at the annual meeting in January. He receives $5 a day while attending board meetings, his railroad fare and hotel expenses. This is the only pay which comes to him for a year's service. The only salaried officers of the board are the secretary and treasurer. The secretary gives his time to the business of the board and to the exposition throughout the year. The State Board of Agriculture is a non-political association, and will always continue to be as long as the present method of choosing the members is followed. The members managing the board's affairs have but one purpose in view, and that is to conduct a great agricultural, horticultural, livestock and mechanical exposition for the advancement of these interests throughout the state. While it is not the purpose of the board to conduct the State Fair for the making of money, yet it is always desirable that the exposition each year shall not be conducted at a loss. For the last ten years the Indiana Fair has been very successful from a financial standpoint. The profits from the fair are always put back into improvements on the fair grounds, the State Board looking to the education and comfort of the patrons of the exhibition. The State Fair comes nearer being an organization belonging to all the people of Indiana than any other enterprise in the state. 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The law department of Howard University at Washington is thought to be deserving the shaking up it is getting. The New Orleans Pythian Temple, costing $200,000, is considered the greatest Negro enterprise on the continent. The Lincoln pennies are pretty enough, at least for some of us fellows. They look good when they come in great batches. One thousand delegates to the Louisville conference of Negro business men. It was a great convention. Much good is certain to follow. Information has it that the War Department of France will welcome 200, 000 Negroes as soldiers for her amy. They would make quite a formidable addition. We will not forget that the Nlagara movement men are in the same business that other organizations are in—having in mind the uplife of the race. They employ different methods, that's all. The New York Times thinks that the colored people should look just like the Lord made 'em—no bleaches, no straightening of the hair. Just as well expect the Mississippi to run upstream. From indications Major John R. Lynch, paymaster in the army, will be retired. He has been ordered before the retiring board. It is thought that he wishes to hold on until he can retire with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Of the nine considered best types of library buildings of the thousands given by Mr. Carnegie, that of Tuskegee, of Booker T. Washington's school, was one of them. The nine were selected by Mr. Carnegie himself. Score again for Booker T. A movement toward a better understanding between Negro editors and publishers is a good thing. Concentration is the word of the hour and the thing. A united front directed with intelligence and conservatism will help mightily in the race of life we are running. Colonel Roosevelt is now busy telling how 'twas done. We imagine the excitement is in the pursuing, rather than in possession, as in most cases, and in consequence these are dull, dull days for the Colonel. His love of writing will be somewhat mitigating, however. The State of Georgia seems to be determined to cancel the good impression made when the board of arbitration ruled in favor of the Negro firemen. The Legislature of the State has passed a law denying Negroes, the right to wear emblems of lodges whose members were originally white men. The fair season comes on apace. The colored people should also take pride in preparing to take ribbons. Failing to do so, all is not lost. The products, much improved owing to the effort, are for consuming or sale. Then the experience is something; also the pleasure, adding to one's longevity of days. A memorandum issued by the Scotch Education Department on music said: "There is no more health-giving form of physical exercise than singing. It develops, strengthens and maintains in good condition the lungs and the other vocal organs, and through them exerts a corresponding influence upon the whole body." Attorney Albert S. White, colored, of Louisville, Ky., was honored by the American Bar Association by being elected sixth vice-president of that great organization. The honor will be easily worn by Mr. White, who is noted for his mental poise. He is a graduate of Howard University. He is the leading Negro attorney of his State. "All that is determined is that this court has declined to reverse an order made in the discretion of the trial term directing a new trial, upon which new trial all the issues are to be presented de novo to another jury. The motion is denied, with $10 costs." The Appellate Court of New York in the Judge Durgo decision. Hector Apollinaire, a Negro, was recently admitted to the bar in Paris. He is of Guadeloupe, thirty years of age and black. He is the only Negro lawyer admitted to the bar in Paris. Mr. Apollinaire has quite a name for a "cullud" gentleman, and if he is nearly as ambitious as his name appears, he should do some great things in that great city. A press association is one of the happy outcomes of the convention of Negro business men held at Louisville, Ky., last week. Mr. R. W. Thompson has undertaken the work of organization. He is well known for his journalistic endeavor, extending over a period of years. He has earned the place he holds, and is deserving of success in the very worthy undertaking. One would not have thought that the staid old Vermonters of abolition taint could be moved by a wave of color prejudice. It is astounding to learn that the people of Burlington and vicinity are greatly wrought up because the Tenth Regiment, just from the Philippines, is ordered stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, near by. All sorts of things are threatened, even unto Jim crow cars. John Mitchell, of the Richmond Planet, has succeeded in having a permit issued for the erection of his bank building. He had a strenuous time, but there were no reasons why the permit should not have been issued, beyond the one—the same "grand old reason" of race. But it is useless to rehearse the particulars, since the mere suggestion is sufficient. Mr. Mitchell gets his building, and is to be congratulated that he did succeed. A Lincoln memorial office building and theater has been proposed for the city of Washington. The structure is to be monumental in character, eight stories in height, done in steel, marble and terra cotta. The structure is being designed by W. Sidney Pittman, who will see to its architectural style and beauty. It will cost $400,000, and will be modern in all respects. Score again for the race. At one point in Virginia, where a large meeting was in progress during Booker T. Washington's tour, the great-grandson of Patrick Henry was brought to the station by his parents for the special purpose of having Dr. Washington shake his hand. The parents seemed to find much delight in having the privilege of doing so. It is the little things that count. How insignificant, yet how great the significance! The attendance of the National Negro Business League was greater than ever. The interest was also higher, and in all ways the convention reached the expectations of those who had matters in hand. The citizens, white and colored, vied in showing distinguished consideration to the groups of Negroes from the various States. The Governor of the State, the Mayor of Louisville and a judge of the Supreme Court addressed the body, welcomed the members and encouraged the race through their remarks. LOGANSPORT. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Lady Luckett has returned from New York and Atlantic City, and reports having a fine time. Mrs. William Wier, of Louisville, Ky. is rising her husband, who is the owner of the diner Mrs. Harris. While in the city Mrs. Wier is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dickson. . . Mr. and Mrs. William Lowndes, of Madison, Ind. is visiting the diner Mrs. Harris. Bert Carter has gone to Indianapolis to visit a week with Mrs. Belle Dell. . . Mr. Horace Turner left last Tuesday morning for Indianapolis to have an operation performed at the hospital. Mrs. Dellard wasden, and the report is that he is getting along nicely. . . Mr. Green Smith last week for Topeka, Kan., to make a three weeks' visit with his uncle. . . Mrs. Carrie Turner has been visiting in Clarksville, Tenn., after spending six weeks in this city, the guest of Mrs. Dr. Ford. James and Florette Turner went to Indianapolis. Mrs. Dellard wasden is in the hospital there. . . Quite a large number of Logansport people attended the grand session and picnic at Kokomo last Thursday. . . Frank Carter and son Cecil left in Clarksville, Tenn., as pastor of Illinois Avenue Baptist Church of Jeffersonville, Ind., and Prof. F. R. Taylor, principal of the colored school of the same city, were in the city three days, the guests attending at the church last week by the stewards and stewardesses was a success. $26 being realized. . . Mrs. Julia Holt, mother of Frank Turner, was given dainiapolis Wednesday. She will spend some months with her daughter. . . Mrs. C. S. Jones and daughter Ester spent last Sunday in Delph. . . Please send your items or telephone number. . . $84 if you want your news in The Freeman. KANSAS CITY, MO. Special to THE FREEMAN SPECIAL TO THE PRESIDENT. Williams, of Omaha, and Turner Hall, Ted Williams, of Omaha, and Dick Doolin, of Kansas City, will box the main bout of the day. There will also be two fast prelim-inaries. The athletic carnival will give the N.Y.C. Twin City Club, Felix Payne, manager. The Owls gave their first annual trolley party to Leavenworth, Kan. August 19, with a picnic at Pickensville and a barn fun at Pickens Will Young. ..Mr. and Mrs. H. Patton made a trip to Chicago, Ill., last week on business. He has returned. Mr. Patton will entertain friends from Jacksonville, Miss. and Chicago. Jacksonville will be held in Indiana,cence September 6-9. ..Mr. Star, of the New State Flag Company, of Muskogee, Okla., is stopping here for a week or ten days. ..Mrs. Johnson, of Louisiana, her daughter, Diana Damer, 1530 Lydia avenue. ..Miss Goldie Stewart has returned to her work as cashier for H. Patton, 911 Wyandotte street, after a month's vacation. ..All local news will be received by H. Patton, 911 Wyandotte street, agent for this paper. EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. Special to THE FREEMAN arrived in the city last week, and has accepted a position as cook with the Edmonton Poultry Farm, about sixteen miles from the city. . . W. B. Lawrence, of Winnipipe, is improving, and the latest reports are that he has leased a farm in the city. He is in the city from Sapulpa, Okla., last week, and expects to make this his future home. . . W. H. Harper, of Moose Jaw, confectioner, will be the city last week, and if things are going well, he and family are stopping here for the present. . . W. Green, of Minneapolis, and wife, who are en route to Vancouver, stopped over in the city last week, and carnivals on his way with his amuse- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ment show... L. Green has accepted the position of chef at the Grandview Hotel... G. W. Butler has left for Paddle River to take up homestead duties. The gentlemen who started in business recently are all doing well. Z. W. Mitchell went out with a hunting party about fifty miles, duck shooting, which resulted in a large catch... Parker's Amusement Company was here in the entire week of the week and is exceedingly larger than the home stocks. The Collierman, who is here on business before returning to his home from his recent trip to the States, is making large and numerous investments in this section. He also owns 450 acres of land north of Battleford, which is being used as a poultry farm. He says he would like to see every colored person not already in Western Canada. He gets some of the money he has in the new land while it is cheap. Mrs. Massie, who has been learning the "Rodmure System" of tailoring, has an immense trade now in both dressmaking and tailoring. She has converted her front room into a shop. Her address is 1231 First street... Leave all news matter, advertisements, subscriptions, or any complaint of the receiving. The Freeman, etc. is a good word Mitchell, the Edmonton correspondent. Call 240 Jasper Avenue, E. Phone 1637, or address P. O. Box 845. ST. PAUL. MINN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Quite a large delegation from St. Paul and a number from Minneapolis were in attendance at the annual session of the State Grand Jury. The regular routine business was routinely transacted. The larger number of offices were given to St. Paul men. The election of officers resulted as follows: J. H. Burdett, St. Paul, M. B. Duluth, D. C. W. I. M. A. Bailung, St. Paul, S. G. W.; J. B. Shaw, St. Paul, J. G. W.; H. Robinson, Minneapolis, S. G. B. R. Durant, St. Paul, G. B. F. Bailung, the appointed officers, Charter, C. G.; J. F. Coquers, D. H. G. Johnson, J. G. D. D. Charleston, S. G. F. Bendleton, J. G. S. E. T. Rhone, G. J. Joseph Adams, G. J. Howard, G. J. Higgingham, M. S. Mason, G. B. W. R. Morris, G. R... Among the visitors to the city last week was Mrs. C. S. Bernett of Kallispell, Mon., who visited her sister, Mrs. Harding, on St. Anthony and visited the Williams house as daughter, Miss Ida Mae Johnson, of 916 Marion street, are visiting Mrs. C. A. Bynoe, of Winnipeg, Can. They are expected home about August in the city, and Williams will have home next week. Do you get the Freeman each week? If not, why not? Henry Crawford, the colored newspaper agent, would be glad to supply you with one each week. If you buy a copy, call him up. Telephone Dale 1052. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Special to THE FREEMAN "Will Roundtree, formerly hat man at the Bates House, Indianapolis, now at the Plankton, the Planktonian, and his mother are visiting the Planktonian, and his mother is visiting his cousin, Miss Sophia Johnson, teacher school. SHEEFEIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. Eddie Mulien, one of Sheffield's most energetic young men, and a student of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, was first on the program at the First Baptist Church, Tuesday night, August 17. His address was fine. His subject was "Up from Slavery," and he spoke with eloquence.... Mr. J. W. Thompson, of Columbia, Tenn. has opened an office there for the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, and is doing a very good business.... The banquet given at the Masonic Hall on Monday night, August 16, in honor of Miss Ollie Lundy, was a very enjoyable affair.... Mrs. Agnes Taylor is yet on the sick list, but is improving.... Mr. D. K. Carothers has opened a first-class restaurant.... Mr. and Mrs. George Mitchell lost their little four-year-old boy on Wednesday evening, August 18.... Rev. D. A. McDonald, of Decatur, Ala., is visiting this city, and preached at the First Baptist Church Sunday night. BEAUMONT, TEX. Special to THE FREEMAN. The public schools here will open on September 1. Extensive preparations in that line are going on...Mrs. Elisa Perkins died Sunday, Dr. D. Campbell died suddenly Sunday evening. E. Sunday School Convention closed for the ensuing year for the Houston district. The officers were as follows: Miss Viola Colbert, of Beaumont, secretary; Mrs. A. H. Jackson, of Beaumont, finance committee, composed of Rev. Reese, S. J. Conner and J. B. Butler, reported the following sums collected: Rev. R. Green, Highland Park, Houston, $2; Rev. H. H. Bridges, Sour Lake, $8; Rev. M. P. Harris, Sour Lake, $8; Rev. S. J. Conner, Chapel, Houston, $15; Rev. S. J. Connor, Galveston, $25; Rev. William Hill, Fulshar, $8; Rev. B. Reese, Brown Chapel, Houston, $25; Rev. C. L. Morgan, St. Paul, Houston, $25; Rev. R. Phone, Reedy Chapel, Galveston, $8; Rev. W. D. Miller, Wesley Chapel, Houston, $100; Rev. W. D. Miller, St. Paul, Beaumont, $7; total, $666. FRENCH LICK, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN: A delightful whist party was given Saturday, Aug. 21, in Mrs. Chas. K. Field's apartment at the Babylon Inn, in honor of the guest who arrived he was served at the door with cigars and drinks. After the game an elegant lunch was served in banquet style at the hotel, and in evening suits, Mr. Fields wore some white flannel. The guest of honour being Mr. Edward E. Pace, of Los Angeles, was the guest of honor, Mr. Tyler Martin, of Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Wm. Hayden, of New York. Mr. Wm Watts, of Louisville, Ky.; Mr. Geo. Price, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. O. Babylon Orchestra rendered excellent music for the occasion. PARIS. KY. Special to THE FREEMAN. J. Richardson, of Atlanta, Ga., who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Emily Terry, of this place, returned home to day...Dr. Mebone attended the Business Men's League at McGraw-Hill to attend the best sessions that he even attended among his people... the burglar that Mrs. J. Catewood captured on July 3 broke jail last night, taking with him three other prisoners. ...French Thompson and wife attended the Supreme Lodge at Kansas City this week. ...Miss Lizzie Thomas, of Levon, Ohio, is visit- ing her hometown, of Jamestown, Barbour county, Kentucky. IRONTON, OHIO. Miss Elvia Shrives, who is making her home in Columbus, is visiting her parents in 8th street. Her sister, Samantha, accompanied her... At th esuggestion of her parents, she went to a party of young people, on last Wednesday, spent part of the day "pincking" on the hills. The outing was enjoyed by all and a similar affair is anticipated in he Agricultural Department, of St. Paul School, Lawrenceville, Va. is visiting parents in Huntington, W. Va. He was a pleasant visitor in our city Saturday and was invited to pot square, ... Miss Nettle, Alexander, whose continued illness has been noted in our columns, died on Saturday, Aug. 21st... Mrs. C. S. Williams' mother, Mrs. Reynolds, his parsonage in Adams street and will remain conference which is to meet here soon. A. B. C.'S NOW CITY CHAMPS Fort Nortwestern Scene of Second Double Defeat of Atkins. Five to one—not runs, but games—is how the A. B. C.Atkins series now stands, with the former carrying teh big end. These two teams have already played in the city championship. Three double-headers have already been played, leaving one—of seven games scheduled—yet to be played. But as far as that is title winner, this has been a tough task for the new city champions. In the first double-header the two teams broke even; the second and third were won by the colored boys. Northwestern Park with several changes in their line-up to repeat the stunt which Manager Butler's, toossers performed on them two weeks ago. The feat was repeated, but not repeated, and the players were marked against them by good margins. Higbee hurled in the first battle against Dulley, who he posed as a game played by the brigade's opponents as bad. General Butler's forces fought from the trenches as if they really meant it, and captured three rounds of rations; the sixth took one, the seventh again; the sixth frightened all who the Bats they were able to get. When the "Ranisters" marched off the field they realized that they were victors by a score of 6 to 2. Primm was the winner, and the Bats not satisfied with that he was well on the job. He has been out of the game for quite a while, but showed up in the form. The Bats not satisfied with their defeat and returned for more. Six and a half frames satisfied them, and the flag of truce went up, with the A. B. C.'s train Griffin and Merida, for the A. B. C.'s Day and Osborne, for the Atkins, composed the batteries. The South-siders made dou- bly runs in the Bats in innings that they score runs in the Bats. The A. B. C.'s play the Cambridge City Grays at Cambridge, Ind., Sunday. The scores: R.H.E. A. B. C.'s.....3 0 0 0 1 0 -6 12 Atkins.....1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -2 81 Bats on ball.....1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -2 81 Struck out-By Higgie, 4; by Dulley, 4. Hit by pitcher-Morris. Two-base hits- Merida, Higgie (2). Three-base hit-Allen. Bats on ball.....1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -2 81 Stolen Bases-Morris. Bouffre Francis, Tulley, Dulley, Umpire- Adams. Time-2:00. Second game— Akil, 11; 1. 1. 0 4 0 0 0 0 RHE Atkins 1. 1. 0 4 0 0 0 0 1-4 Innings pitched—Grimfif, 7; Day, 7. Hits- Off Griffin, 4; off Day, 5. Bases on balls- Off Day, 5. Bases on balls-Off Day, 2. Hit by pitcher—Allen, West. Two- base hits—Allen, Merida, Osborne, Tobey Double play—West to Chase. Stolen bases- Morris, Allen. Adams—Adams. Time- THINGS WORTH KNOWING. The Winona Technical Institute is not allied with the prohibition movement. This statement was made by Wm. C. Smith, general director of the institute in rebuke to an attorney made by C. H. Hoffman, general counsel for the International Stewards Association. The Stewards Association desired to have this point settled, as they contemplate the erection of a training school on the grounds of the institute. Both parties, however, stand for true temperance. With the closing of saloons in Anderson rebates will have to be paid the saloon keepers, and according to a statement from the county, both the saloons, the county will be forced to borrow money to make these payments. The holders of bonds on Tennessee breweries wonder if the other securities issued on property in that state are likely to be redeemed in that state pass away. Fannie Mae's fannie law renders the bonds worthless. There are stockholders interested, and they likewise want to lose their investments, but the reformer cares nothing, or perhaps they don't. Pepa Haps, at some future time, he may reap the whirlwind, as these things are usually balanced up within a reasonable term of years. Papers are printing news items with surprising regularity stating that the antisaloon worker falls by the wayside now and that the government is forbidding for "a little time," are known in some sections as "Geographical Christians." It is true that revolvers kill more people than liquor, yet, in every state the sale of liquor to a minor is forbidden, while, in every state in the Union, any boy may have a revolver if he wants it and has the As causes of death, why not enumerate a few of the most terrible diseases and spend combatting them a portion of the money subscribed to the anti-saion league, which is the most vigorous and diligous schemers for creating inaccurate statistics? Death from tuberculosis comes to one person in five, deaths from cancer, in men, one in twenty-seven, in women, one in eleven, deaths from alcohol, one in women, one in deaths from alcohol, one in deaths from alcohol appear in the tables of "Minor Causes of Death," and, on pages 6 and 24 of Bulletin 83, is given the total number of deaths in the United States: from all causes, $1,039,094, from alcohol HOW THE COMMITTEES WERE MADE UP LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Special)—The work of the various committees was distinctly "gilt-edged." Upon all were men and women of quality—the they stood for sculpting and design, figure-hunting. They went to the marrow of every question they were called upon to settle and in the final analysis their wisdom was accepted without notable division on the part of the main team. The capital committees were made up as follows: On Auditing—C. First Johnson, Alabama, chairman; S. H. Highland, Mississippi; H. A. Tandy, Kentucky; and E. B. Jones. On Nominations—Charles Banks, Mississippi, chairman; G. W. Franklin, Tennessee; W. W. Porter, Ohio; W. M. Alexander, Arkansas; W. C. Gordon, Missouri; Non-commissioned. On the committee on resolutions was Thomas J. Calloway, of Washington, D.C., and the declarations set forth for the consideration of the body was the most comprehensive and vigorous that the Louisville committees to whom the visitors are indebted for their elaborate and entirely satisfactory entertainment was as follows: J. B. Cooper—J. B. Cooper, chairman; David Stewart, N. B. Harper, Thos R. Tate, George Tinsley. On Mupse—Lawyer N. R. Harper, chairman; W. H. Steward, W. F. Gray, W. T. Wheeler; On Street Decorations—S. W. Jordan, chairman; J. H. Hathaway, W. C. F. Mason, A. G. Meuch, Thomas F. Parks, C. B. Cohen; On Reception—J. A. C. Lattimore, chairman; Cassius Smith, Charles Johnson, James Tate, Dr. H. B. Beck; On Accompaniment—S. W. Jordan, chairman; R. Sismith, W. H. Steward, Rev. C. H. Parrish, W. W. Spreadling, J. H. Hume, Albert S. White. On Publicity and Promotion—Henry Alley, Spencer Taylor, W. L. Susby, Cary B. Lewis, Spencer Taylor, W. E. Johnson, Ben J. Ackens. On Place—W. T. Garnett, chairman; Edward Caldwell, J. A. Hunt, T. W. Bradford, W. H. Wright, John Dorch, Stephen Bell. On Finance—Prof. W. H. Perry, chairman; W. T. Garnett, Edward L. Hansweck, Rev. C. H. Parrish, Prof. A. E. Meyzeek. Literary Bureau—Prof W. H. Perry. Dr. P. E. Peters, W. H. Steward, Hon. Albert S. White, James F. Gray. The president of the local league is David L. Knight, and his energetic and painstaking services went far to bring to Louisville the glory that is hers today by reason of the magnificent reception accorded the National League. Mrs. J. B. Cooper, a lady of rare social attainments, is at the head of the Woman's Auxiliary, to the local league. Prominent among her assistants were Mrs. E. Steward, Mrs. Scott Baughman, Miss Lucy N. D. Du Valle, Mrs. Govens and others. NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Concluded from Page One. cussion participated in by Benjamin Carr, of Tennessee, and Abraham Miller, of Arkansas. V. H. Tulane, a successful grocer of Montgomery, Ala., spoke on "The Negro in the Civil War." In order that a natural master, Major R. R. Moton, led in the singing of such typical melodies as "We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder." "Swing Low, Sweet Charlot" and "If You Were a King," from a Moton set a warm pace and early pressaged the success that the convention proved to be. DR. WASHINGTON STRIKES A KEY-NOTE. Wednesday night Mascauley's Theater, the night playhouse of the city, was packed from pit to dome with one of the finest audiences ever assembled there. Dr. Booker T. Washington's annual address was the feature of the occasion. Mr. W. Booker T. Washington, the Baptist, Kentucky's leading religious publication, presided and following his introduction of Dr. Washington, the "Wizard of Tuskegee" was given the Chauqua university address, which is accepted as the keynote of CHICAGO BUREAU OF THE INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN. 3106 STATE STREET. DR. M. A. MAJORS, Editor. J. HOCKLEY SMILEY, Local Editor. W. P. PERRY, Soliciting Editor. JAS. W. WOODLEE, Contributor. The case of Poindexter vs. Poindexter, which promised to develop a bitter contest has been settled quietly. According to the bill filed by the wife, last January the couple were married in Sparta, Ill., 1900, and lived together until August 1908, when the wife and the case to the cargo, charging the husband with being too friendly with a married woman promissed to the home of the wife, who is the son of the wife upon arrival in Chicago consulted Capt. Fred Ball, Jr., with the result that suit was begun. The husband, Wm. H. Poindexter, reputed to be the healthiest and most well-paid man in the Illinois, employed the firm of Musgrave, Platt and Lee and Everett and McGongle, and retaliated by filing a cross bill and having the wife arrested on a statutory charge. The final hearing of the case promised to be of the most sensational character and would follow involved a number of prominent people, both in Sparta and Chicago. To avoid this and the scandal that would necessary follow a public hearing, the parties agreed to settle their troubles privately. The suspense is at a high tension young lady is a musician of great need for a gentleman standard in professional circles. It is regretted that we are not permitted the parties. Hon. Geo. L. Knox, the whigage of Indianapolis, and owner of Freeman, was in Chicago recently paid to the house of Washington Knox is enough inspiration for the Negro of America. He is eloquently more which way you take him and he is always the talk, and he speaks he suits his words to the other. Whatever else may be said at great citizen of Indiana, no description of the proposed quite composting on the congination, and his great interest in the of this race. Mr. Knox goes to two beyond description, he is his enemies. Lawyer Jas. Nelson Simms has been to Chicago from Louisville, when Accordingly, Attorneys representing the wife and M. B. McGonigle representing the husband and went in before Judge Walker last Thursday to have a degree earned first disposing of the matter and satisfying both parties. It may be remarked in passing that Cap. Ball more than held his own against the illicit array of legal talent opposed to him. Whereas, The Divine Providence has removed from our midst the late Mrs. Carrie Jones wife of the Honorable John G. our esteem, a fellow citizen and member of the D. A. Straker Bar Association. And, Whereas, her life has been one of the highest type of Christian womanhood, and a worthy example for the women of our city. Be It Resolved. That we, the members of the D. A. Straker Bar Association of children of the city, have his deep and sad affliction in the death of his wife. Mrs. Jones was a most estimable character, faithful wife and devoted husband, and unostentatious way towards assisting the needy and distressed, and especially in her efforts towards making happy and cheering the lives of the fortunate and fortunate. Resolver, further. That we extend to the bereaved husband, relatives and friends of the deceased, our most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this, their hour of extreme sadness, always remembering that "There is a Reaper whose name is Death, and his eyes are crying. He puts the bearded arm at a breath. And the grass that grows between." Resolver further. That a copy of these resources to the husband and family of the deceased. W. W. JOHNSON, President HENRY M. PORTER, Secretary. Miss Mamie L. Blackwell, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is visiting in this city. She is the guest of Mrs. Crew, 5540 Jefferson avenue. Mrs. Kinney and her sister Mrs. Hodge of Atlanta, Ga., are visiting friends here. They are located at 3801 Dearborn street. Mrs. Hodge is connected with Morris-Brown College, of Atlanta, Ga. The photographer recently executed a picture of H. G. Icasus, D. M. A. Majors and Mr. Jas. W. Wooala. Friends are congratulating the photographer for the reason that his camera does not need to be repaired. Although August has never laid any special claim as being a month of roses and blushes, it is whispered that a certain young man of the age of 30 well known gentleman of this city. The bells are ringing already and the National Negro Business League. Dr. Washington reviewed the progress of the Negro League and the outlook most encouraging. The stimulus of the National Negro League was clearly seen, he said, in the increased number of banks, business enterprises of every description that are sponging out of the land and in the area of land that the race is acquiring in the State. In forty years, the Negro has gotten possession of an acreage nearly as large as the land of the credit of the Negro he placed 40,000 homes, 200,000 farms, nearly 200 drug stores, 25,000 churches, hundreds of undertakers, and over 10,000 conducting the dry goods distribution that are found in all sections of the land. The Negroes of the United States are ahead of the Negroes of the world. Stating that another four years will mark the beginning of the Negro was set free, he suggested that the people of the colored race should celebrate the occasion by giving a mammoth fair or exposition, setting forth in detail the Negro's history and the gestion was given a hearty round of cheers and a committee has been appointed to report on the matter at the next meeting of the Negro, the "Wizard" thinks, is due in a large measure to the constructive labors of the 500 local leagues scattered throughout the country, pushing forward the basic enunciated by the national organ- The address of Mr. F. C. Nunemacher, president of the Louisville Board of Trade, attended a meeting of the board of attention. Mrs. Martha Broadus Anderson, a singer of national note, rendered a charming performance, and Selma G. Briggs, of this city, led the obligato of the "Inflammatus." The address of Dr. W. H. Ballard, of Lexington, was forcible, and illuminating. "MISSISIPPI DAY" A BANNER OCCasion. The Mississippi delegation, headed by Charles Banks, president of the Mississippi State University, splendid showing Thursday, taking up the entire program. The subjects discussed covered a wide range, including merchandizing, farming, the drug business, banking, and the cottonseed oil mill, and the Nigro in the professions. A report of the achievements of the State League was presented. The speakers embraced Bishop Elias Cotter, the president of the Mississippi Mackintosh, Isaiah Mitchell, Isaiah T. Montgomery, Dr. E. P. Brown, A. A. Cosey, P. W. Howard, C. W. Gilliam and others, large groups of students, and exhibition of the church lobby and on the platform, showing the work of the Negroes of the State of Mississippi in the arts and industries. During the rendition of the program the Mississippians fifty strong, occupied a section facing the rostrum. In the afternoon the body enjoyed a picnic at White City (River View Park), a charming resort thrown open to our people for the third time since its development, through the generosity of Manager Simon. Here Dr. Washington delivered a telling address, followed by Prof. Kelly Millier, of Howard University; Adam Smith, Oklahoma's "cotton king"; Rev. W. L. Taylor, president of the True Reformers' Bank, Richmond, Va., and Frank W. King, of Chicago. In the evening at the church, Mr. C. C. Stoll, member of the Board of Public Works, of Louisville, Ky., R. G. W. Pennyman, representing the International Sunday School in on and Emmett I. Scott, one of the three members of the United States commission appointed by President Jack to investigate the political, industrial and social problems in the Republic of Liberia, delivered strong speeches, and pleased the large audience present. CLOSING PROGRAM AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS Friday was closing day, but the interest was in no manner whatsoever. The hospital citi- Resolutions. --- the suspense is at a high tension. The people are great cleverness, unless, while the gentleman is in professional circles. It is to be sure we are not permitted to name the parties. ... Hon. Geo. L. Knox, the white-haired senior associate, and owner of THE FREEMAN, was in Chicago, in company with Dr. Booker T. Washington, Mr. Knox is enough inspiration for the man Negro of America. He is eloquent, when you hear him you take him. In actions and deeds he takes when he speaks he suits his words to his friends. Whatever else may be said about this man, Indiana, no description of him can be considered without commenting on his congenial tion and his great interest in the welfare of the man. Mr. Knox goes a notch of two beyond description, he even loves his enemies. Lawyer Jas. Nelson Simms has returned to Chicago, where he attended the National Business League. He visited his brother in Indiana anapolis en route home. The attorney's brother is a deputy controller in the metropolis of Indiana. Messrs. S. Lang Williams and Thomas Pearson leading lawyers of the Chicago Pearson leading lawyers of the Louisville and Baltimore a very flattering session of the National Business League. The Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias presented a beautiful sight as they marched to the depot, escorted by the Eighth Regiment Band, en route at Kansas City, Mo. Dr. and Mrs. Hull, and Dr. McDowell, attended the National Medical Association at Boston, Mass., this week. Dr. Anna Cooper read a paper before the National Medical Association, on the Woman in the Field of Medicinal Science. Drs. Majors and Rirhardson succeeded in restoring to life a young woman who was overcome by gas last Sunday. Every method known to the medical art was tried, and although her body appeared to be lifeless, an hour of hard work started her to breathing and her heart to beating, so that today the young woman still lives, although every one had given her up as dead. Last Sunday a very large excursion of or colored people from the south reached the city for the annual affair, and it goes without saying enough with them to set up shop. The taste of Michigan lake water, and a taste of our northern air make them contented as a place to rest of their lives, nor do they all remain in Chicago; a great many of them go to Detroit, niemapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and over, and other money centers less conspicuous. --- Mr. Wm. H. Huff, of 2701 State street, an enterprising young man of our race, has demonstrated that he has some very impressive skills, and has designated formula that actually does all it it should do. It is dandruff remover, hair cleaner, hair grower and makes the health of the hair such that it becomes straight and hair is normal for the Great Law. It is enjoying an extensive sale of this preparation throughout the country, and most especially in Chicago. Mr. Huff enjoys the distinction of being the youngest notary public in Chicago, and is a graduate pharmacist. The Chicago Conservator is not edited by Dr. L. Carey any more. Mr. Tha. Wallace has written the Great Law, and youngster from the East, and who bristles with new and novel force, essays the role of editor of "Ebony." Mr. Mann seems to have much respect and concern for this work, and has launched "Ebony" out for the purpose, let us hope, not to give each son of Ham a darker coating. The egro is the state of the game, programs but little else, and colorless it is in the exciting scramble of bleaching. Solomon it is said, "was dark and comely," but being black is not the Big egro to boost in any part of civilization, unless we incline our hearts to Menelick. Executive Committee—J. C. Napier, chairman, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. S. E. L. Eourtner, Boston, Mass.; Dr. W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; E. P. Booze, Colorado Springs, Colo. J. E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark.; J. B. Bell, fouston, Tex.; M. L. Meworka, Pascola, O. W. T. Andrews, Sumter, S. C.; F. D. Paterson, Greenfield, O. A strong set of resolutions urging a strong effort to the spirit of constructive development and optimism among the Negroes of the country, was offered by Mr. T. J. Calloway and unanimously approved by the satisfactory settlement of the Georgia firemen's strike, in which the colored workmen were placed on the equal footing with other races in the matter of wages and salaries. SOCIAL FUNCTIONS NUMEROUS. Many social functions were given during the week, starting Tuesday evening with the elaborate dinner given by the late Dr. Washington, Kyn. Ulin honor of Dr. Washington and the officers of the League. The company was large and distinguished. The Women's League was founded in 1824 Magazine Street, a lawn party at the Y. M. C. A. grounds and other affairs of an enjoyable character were given, culminating with the grand banquet held at which covers for over 500 guests were laid. Dr. Washington and the officers and friends of the League were invited to the League naval hospitality and agree that this city has outranked all others in the number of delegates present, life members secured, more officers present, equipment extended. A movement is on foot to have the proposed semi-centenial anniversary of the Negro's freedom held here in the city, in which the convention of this year was handled. In connection with the regular session group meetings were held by the national association of National Negro Press Association, R. W. Thompson, president National Negro Bankers Association, W. R. Pettiford, president National Negro Bankers Association, W. R. White, president Association, Albert White, president. A manufacturer's group is suggested by F. D. Patterson and A. H Howard, and will be formed at the next session. The next place of meeting, Boston, Omaha, Nebraska, Little Rock, Ark. Springfield, Ill. Muscle Carriage, Hampton, Virginia, New Albany, being considered by the executive committee. R. W. THOMPSON ... . . . THE STAGE The Temple Theatre will be opened at New Orleans, La., Sept. 1. E. S. Cheevers is manager. John Wickleiffe, the trap drummer, of Louisville, Ky., is at the Pekin Theatre, at Cincinnati, O., having much success. Miss Anne Morton, of Bowling Green, Ky., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Emma Morton, at the residence of Mr. Richard Bradshaw late of Dandy Dixie Minstrels, 1667 W. Walnut. The Three C Stock Company, under the management of A. Racchio, has been engaged at the Star Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, for three months, with much success. The Lincoln Theater at Atlanta, Ga., is meeting with great success. The S. R. O. sign is out every night. Lee Crawford is stage manager and comedian, and is pleasing the great audiences. It has been reported that Billy McClain was stabbed several times recently by a gang. He was taken to a hospital, but his condition was not serious. All Dasson, the classic juggler, and Arabian gun manipulator, has just closed a five weeks engagement in vandeville through its door at Wells, Menn. Box 139. Regards to Count De Robo and all friends. The Golden Gate Quintet opened its third week Monday at the Crystal at Milwaukee. Rex Henry Winfried, Fannie Winfried, A. Coats, S. Freeman, F. C. Sutton, manager, Mrs. Winfried appeared in her new costume, and is featuring "In the Light of the Same Old Moon." The musical farce comedy entitled "Who's King of Clobber" has this year featured the production Our Done Jackville, Fla., Joel and Glickstein, proprietors. The production introduces Slim Henderson and Little Billie Owens. A grand concert is given every Sunday night. Sylvester Russell has just submitted a new original monologue to Mr. Harrison Stewart, a professor of Morrison and Washington, has also received a new monologue specially written for him by Mr. Russell, to use in electric theaters. Mr. Russell will not have time to write even if he should get promised commissions. William Henry Davis (Kid Davis), of Boston, Mass., rushed into Chicago a few days ago and spent time enough to dine his chum, Sylvester Russell, at the Pelkin Cafe, where he met the singer, Sibury — the shearer, wright-actor, were in the party, Mr. Davis left Howard University Law School several years ago to live in Boston, where he met the singer, Sibury — the shearer, wright-actor, were in the party, Mr. Davis has been asked to give a sketch of Mr. Russell's life, which will probably appear in the Freeman at an early date. L. McDuff, of the Great Fri Don Show, writes, "We left alloyo, Calif., and Kid Davis at St. Helena, Calif., and Kid Davis at a good business. Things are running smoothly. Weather very warm. Alck Venerable closed on the 19th. Ed Anderson, Prank Watts, Harvey Holland, Sampson, and his wife wish to their many friends in and out. Things are assuming a brighter aspect in San Francisco. Jack Ross, who is an artist, has charge of Sam King's orchestra, in which capacity he has been for a number of years. Would like to hear from all friends. Best regards to all THE FLORIDA BLOSSOMS The Florida Blossoms Comedy Company is meeting with unprecedented success playing in the state's largest comedy condition and the people are contented and happy. They have been playing to crowded houses nightly, and are highly pleased with the success of country music, Dudley, the efficient bandmate of the comedy G. Allen Company, and the Florida Blossoms send greetings to the whole colored professions. Parker's Amusement Company. Our show is progressing rapidly, as one of the best of its kind. There are twenty-two performers, who are artists in the show, Mrs. Rosa Scott is our leading soubrette, assisted by Miss Irene Tearo, Chas Engish and Davis are the leading comedians, and the relatively few the goods in their sketch, Dinah and Oph. Ellis Johnson has made a hit singing "Mas of Ham." Ellis monologues the house by storms in his monologues and song and dance. Dick Brown has no in buck and wing dancing. OLD PLANTATION AND MINSTREL SHOW. The Old Plantation Band and Minstrels with the Ringling Bros. Shows, now under the management of Prof. R. Ray Pape are all well known in August 19, and was met at the show band by some of the men here of the "Daisy Amusement Company." The band and show band are good usual. James Jackson, our funny comedian, is still keeping everybody full of laughs, singing "That's a Plenty" very successfully. Gards to Will C. Washington, Tom White other members of the Richards and Prints instrels. Regards to all in the profession. P. G. LOWERY'S BIG MINSTRELS. We have just got back from the coast and are now in Iowa. P. G. Lowery Minster is the talk of the West. It is said to be with any circus. Miss Essie Williams. Mrs. Billy Earthy is Down in Georgia on Campmeeting Day" with much success. Billy Earthy is唱ing up singing "If There Ant no Chickens in Heaven, I Don't want to Go There." and sends regards to friends in Chicago. Mr. Billy Earthy holding hers, as the only female with a circus minstrel. Mr. Robert Giles joined Salt Lake City, Utah, and is doing nicely. He said Pat Bartlett write. Harry Crosby. Johnalla Gay closed at Salt Lake City. Miss Jannie Galle joined at Salida, Cal., and is making good all along the line. John Edwards is making good singing "Say that's all." Charles Beechman is a big hit singing "Come Right in. Set Right Down and Mike Yourself at Home." Charles Beechum and Johnnie Edwards are much pleased with their new Leedy drums. The company sends regards to Marshall's Old Plantation at Seattle, Wash. EMPIRE. At the Empire Theater next week a top-tier in burlesque will be presented, Montague's New Fashion Plates. This company, as its name indicates, is a real Fashion Plate for others to copy, and all those in search of clean, healthy enjoyment will be in tune from New York" a performance that please and entertain them. There is a laugh in every line of this bright comedy. The play has a well connected story, and the clever production is pure throughout. This clever production is one of the most successful wherever presented, and is one continuous ripple of laughter and applause. The company includes some of the best korean dancers in the bespoke stage, Harry Montague, Lew Dumon, gan and Harry Phillips with Caroline Duncan, Lillian Keeley, Eva Van Osten, Bella Lee, the best and twenty handsome show girls. The costumes, scenery and equipment of this clever company is a Fashion Institute of Technology, the famous musical director and composer, is with the company, and the lover of good music will have a treat. Hugh McGaun, Manilaopolis fighter, recently matched with Jia Yin, the best dancer in traction. He will box at each performance. THE PROFESSION IN PITTSBURG Last week at the Star Theatre on Wylie avenue, Edward H. Winn presented Blackville justice and The Avery Students. The Avery Students and the management has organized a stock company with Mr. Winn as director, assisted by a company of eighteen clever performers, which is the only theatre in the city that caters to the race. A first-class colored orchestra supplies the music. A colored stock company for the season to entertain its patrons and a colored book-attracting theater has been amused that the famous Lindsay quartet members of the Star Stock Company in the near future with their present company assisted by Lindsey quartette, would have the strongest company of the kind. The manager, Mr. Dunlap, recently said to The Freeman representative: We have never had a colored show house here and we have never had a colored star. With them first-class attractions at all times. There are two other play houses within a square of mine which got along well with the first-class color a, jsw, new Fulton and the Lycme are barely existing. OLIVER'S MEXICO MINSTRELS. The P. Oliver's Mexico Minstrels has united with the Thomas F. Edwards Concert Band and Orchestra, and is having much success with the company. Prentiss Oliver, the leading comedian and stage manager, is taking the house by storm, keeping the people in a laughing, well-ventilated room and song, "The Old Hen Cackle." Also Mr. Eugene Hooten is great with funny jokes, leaving the house in an uprush. Miss Alice sends her having much success singing "Turtle Dove." Mr. Mack Rivers is quite a pleasant comedian with his songs and buck and wing dance, taking many encores singing "The Lady of the Lake." Mrs. Myre Hawkins is making good singing, "I Has a Pain in My Saw Dust." Mrs. Myre Hawkins is making lady, is still holding her and making good singing, "That Teasing Rag," with her contralto voice, taking many encores. Mrs. Rastus Jones and Miss Alice Miller are great with their sister team and their double buck and wing dances, pleasing every one. Miss Alice sends regards to Tafars. The Mexico Minstrels are great. STRAIGHT DOPE FROM DIXIE- LAND. In last week's issue Mr. Jull Jones asked a question, the following: "How do you stay on the coast?" Personal news stopped all at once. If there is anything wrong, let us know in time, brothers. Going to the above, will say: There is nothing wrong at all: everything is lovely and the goose hangs high. We have lots of amusement and excitement at all times here. Last week was one long to be remembered for its novelty weddings. Karuil Jitsui and Alza Tomeka, both Japanese, were married in Tampa, Florida, for a animal show. Jim Cravyhorse, the Cherokee Indian, to Sally Running Elk. The knot was tied during a foot race. The day following was a German couple, who mutually agreed to marry. The couple, whose names no one could pronounce. They joined hands in the house upside down. The last but not least was a son and daughter of Ham, James Lacey, the eminent bandleader of the offfy jiwkauw, you know). Miss Lillie McGee was bridesmaid and Artha L. Prince acted as best man. This pretty wedding was solemnized upon the stage at Dikeland during the 2012 Olympics of all nations witnessed the affair. The stage was very artistically decorated with ivy and sweet peas. The lobby was decorated effectively with red roses and carnations, and the stage was decorated with brunner roses. After the show was all out and over, the members later enjoyed an informal dance, and the ghost walked the same night. Now we expect to hear some good tidings from the coast of Lae Michigan. THE FLORIDA BLOSSOMS COMPANY. After playing three very successful weeks in Arkansas we are now in Oklahoma, where business is a record breaker. Every one in the company is enjoying good food and drink and we are wearing the smile that won't come off. While in Hot Springs the show was attended by the manager and members of the company, who were tended our company a swell collation, after which dancing was indulged in until the wee small hours of the morning, after which the manager, Mrs. Stella Harris, stage amour, and Mrs. Stella Harris, stage amour, were voted the acme of entertainers. The show is all that can be expected and is one of the best colored shows on the road. We have added to our list of able performers that well-known comedian, Chinck Floyd. Madam Kute Price is taking three and four encores nightly singing "That Ollo Rag," Miss Stella Harris makes very much of his role in the Ball hinge "The Moon," assisted by a well-drilled chorus of pretty soubrettes. Coyden Handon, the youngest hoop controller in the business, is still holding his stumps, which he does in Chinese costume. The band of 12 is playing some of the latest mediles as well as some of the standard overtures. One sends The Freeman their best wishes. John Tobias sends his regards to all friends in and out of the profession. friends in a dark but bright Child sends regards to Dick Anderson and the Rabbit's Foot Co. Little Joe Miller sends regards to Prof. McCannon, Johnson, Fisher & Phillip and the entire A. G. Allen's bunch, and also Piccolo Jones and Enoch Blake, of the Chapel. Our popular announcer, Sam Cohen, is at the head of his class as a door talker and ticket seller and sends his regards to Will Goff Kennedy and the Chapel sees the Leroy Knox, our whilwind buck and wing dancer, is still posing as the "La-da-dah." everybody sees the ghost regular, Monday nights. Last, but not least, (Sparta) the coun- sellor back at his post and is welcome by all. DEHOMEY! SWEET HOME! The stroll in the garden of dreams. Stretching from the garden and on until one o'clock. It is safe to go every resort in this section of the country and enjoy the Southwest has sent a large delega- tion to the Southwest. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER tion and what's more they brought the nickels along with them and are spending them right and left. They have their return tickets in the safe deposit vaults, the bank's vault, the guest they will all return home after the event, the slot-houses are doing a land-office business. Some are putting on good shows, especially the Pekin, Chester, Grand Monogram. They have carried the war to the terrace and now we have business they have to put on three or four good acts. The ten-cent movement is a nightmare in Dehoney, where the monograms are in the field to stay. Things have changed wonderfully since they have commenced to book from Chicago. They pay the biggest salary of any place except Chicago and demand the best acts of Dehoney. And demand they are going to have a larger house. Harrison Stewart is back on the stroll again drawing them from everywhere. It doesn't make any difference whether he is or his big act, the results are the same. Joe Sims, the Prince of Dehoney, fixed Cincinnati for fair. It will be a long time before a monologue artist reaches the mark that the Prince left in Cincinnati. Just as this paper goes to press, Miller & Lyles will attempt some unknown in-game business and that it go on their show business in that it goes to the Pekin. These boys deserve credit for their grit. Grit, not nerve! If they do get away with this bold dash they have to fight against the noisy crowd. The "Goats" against the noisy big crowd Friday night of last week. The popularity of this young organization would pack any house in Dehoney. The novelty of their programs is that one knows what is coming to the Kentucky Club, capped the climax by presenting the Club with two little real William goats as mascots. Once the Bureau of Information of the Chester Institute Company comes the news that Indianapolis will have a real ten-cent colored theatre, very soon. Yes, the real and only Indianapolis, Ind. And, the real and only St. Louis, St. Louis, have houses running all over St. Louis. Show places that Indianapolis have made the public take notice. Two new shows or two old companies, one or a new name, St. Louis, Dudley and Black Patti. If they were named that lives a thousand years beyond their usefulity it was the Smart Set and Black Patti Troubadours. Great men say there is nothing in a name. It's not that they come in contact with these two names. It looks as if the colored vaudelleville performers walk right out and take the center of the stage before being invited and made to dance. J. Ed Green of the Chester Amusement Company, has a big offer to go to London, Eng, and put on shows for Carlisle & Baker and the French Army. It looks like they have an ingrained water. "Yours are Miss Lewis," last taken a week's engagement at Chennai. After Nettie Lewis and Goldie Chosby, Ringgold and Johnson, what will we send next, of is that sufficient? "There are plays the next week and plays at the Star. Why not the Majestic? There has not been a colored act at the Majestic this season. The house likes colored acts, and why not play them. What's happened out on the coast? Not a word of consolation. Write us something. THE SMART SET SHOW SUCCESS. MILLER, LYLES AND MILLER To Star in Comedy—A Summary of the Trio. By Sylvester Russell. The critic's Bible is open; the sermon for this occasion is taken from our Freeman stage gospel as recorded by Russell, the prophet, in the third chapter of the book of revelations and the thirteenth verse or second paragraph, which reads as follows: "And there was a certain young actor whose advancement was most too sudden for the primary stitches in his high-tide pants. The actress who was the fractional partner was Aubrey Miller until they hooked on to Irvin Miller, whose capture was no surprise, for he had money to help them to star, and wanted to star himself, even so, without experience or reputa- The above parable is a conclusive narrative tersely drawn, a prescription as to what should be done to make amuseable things of three frisky young students the sake of true gospel, the three upstart actors must be judged. Miller and Lyles are two young playrights who as amateurs produce a play that will be successful that they decided to take a trip to Chicago to become professionals, directly after I had predicted in The Freeman that I would have to produce a Bobe Cole, Jesse Shipp, and others of the lesser class, would be college students from the South. These two young men at once set in to produce their plays at the Pekin Theatre, where they were to be "The Husband," "Mayor for Dixie" and "The Oyster Man" (in which piece the late Ernest Hogan starred) were the most successful. they made the professional debt playing the role of the last season, after green money had slipped between their fingers, they had to go on the vaudeville stage. So they selected a scene from one of their plays to do as a sketch, the Baugh, an enterprising white manager, offered to owe owing to a lack in supply of funds, Flournoy Miller had to apply to his brother, Irvin Miller, a literary writer, who at once seeks to leap the abyss of the sky, to seal the bargain by a money promotion, and a star, equal to his brother, also. Although Irvin Miller is an amateur, he will assume to be by doing the straight, and the new combination will be known as "Miller, Lyles and Miller." The company has been rehearsing in Chicago, and is booked to open at an early date down near the Windy City. As a tryout Miller will be appearing in the "washerwoman's trust" scene from "The Colored Aristocrat," the play in which they will be starred, at the Theater, and this scene alone proves that the play will be taken on the road, will be a success. Their Miss Vlvin Forest, who halls from a New Orleans stock company, formerly Miss Wright, in the cast at the Pekin tryout, but it is not early as yet to wage war on her ability. I accepted an invitation from the Miller to attend one of their rehearsals. One evening later I met Irwin Miller and informed him that Irwin Miller conducted things too loud and sensationally. Miller told me that they had never Mr. Cole or Mr. Shipp rehearse a company, but they had seen Ed Green's rehearsals, and Green's were very loud. To this I replied that I belonged to the old-fashioned school, and lost it with Hogan in New York by its practices. Flournoy Miller, who is conducting the rehearsals, should know that the first thing of a rehearsal should be order; that no member of a rehearsal should be in the back of a drinking or smoking should be allowed, or love scenes with chorus ladies tolerated. In fact, outsiders should be prohibited. Every one of the chewing and ready a call without being "called down," Miller has the making of a good stage producer. In dictating to the company or individuals, for a wonder, Miller and Lyles are entirely outside the stage, and they are not the only one to be the最大 force if they think that resorting to profanity is more convincing than to have Mr. Lyles call a member quietly aside for example, and the cigarette is the same charge, and in this is the only more effective. To hestate and look means to speak; let them all remember that; and above all things, young actors must remember to respect the men who employ the same Conductors who have the common familiar at other times. All the members, as well as the stars, should treat each other with the same courtesy as though they are in the way of ungu종ing managers, and in this Flournoy Miller should know that the respect his brother, for no other reason than to note that his brother is lacking in the new undertaking of stage experience, as well as the same Conductors who have the common familiar with success. Then again, Flournoy Miller needs regulating badly, and there is no better time than now of the new conductors who are in the way of available natural comedians, whose present ability I will tell you more about when I see him in his new play as a star. To the critic, the new conductors of well-developed head and a drooping co-convenience which looks down and deals with low-level ideas, such as falsehoods and other false habits, when he should be making these new concerts, which are the most important for the constitution, a study, that he may be able to escape the hell-gate of his own folly. Mr. Miller must remember that the man who is the new conductors who are in the way of a tool himself, and in professional life, as an actor and producer, he must not allow the size of his head to get the betterment of his body. He has the right to be the most business and position will, for he is to think, and think correctly, for he certainly must know that he is not yet actually in the harness for the tribulations of a novice-member. On the other hand, he has been a new venture. He must notice and pattern after the most intelligent men he sees of business and professional attainments; he must be more than a call to the other who is the most well-advanced as an actor. The stage is the road to ruin or the narrow pathway to a successful life. I am not pointing the way to a more or less time to do the work. I am not going to be made reputation as an author brings envy to his path, that he may eat and sleep regularly, go to bed early and get a good rest good to the other who is the best good to the voice before he loses it and everything else that goes with it; that he may drink of the cool water of virtues that will open his eyes to the power of the life. The new�antements of false reckoning beset him. Of Aubrey Lyles less criticism is due. While he is much on the same order of things as the other, he is neither his nerve quite so strong. He has a plainer way of conducting his limited discretion, which gives him more of a polished demeanor. He is a comedian Lyles is a very funny little fellow when Miller with his gall does not try to make all the fun himself. There are, howsoever, other points to note in the playwright-comedians. Neither of them drinks, and both of them manage to dwell together in harmony; it is also said that Miller is a very reliable manager, and if so will be welcomed as a happy new find in the field of colored theatricals for which both parties must furnish With this description of three stars that are to shine and their new comedy, "The Colored Aristocrats," if you think you will be able to rilish them—and I think you will be able to see how they work. You will be close to them. I invite you now are set to see them for when the show comes around; don't miss it; treat them to ice cream sodas twice, and then say: "Don't forget the crifle's advice." That, I think, is the best way to thank them. isn't it? I hope I have succeeded in pleasing the ladies. Girls are so very chatty, don't you know; and the chewing of their ore is good for business—I mean the show business, of course, and, as a matter of fact, the news, is good when people don't borrow. Decidedly clever, isn't it? this rot, and so exquisitely narrow. WHAT THE COLORED VAUDE VILLE ARTISTS ARE DOING IN THE EAST. By Bradford. (The Indianapolis Freeman's Eastern Vaudeville Authority.) Lew Jones and Perry Black are back in New York city for Ferry Island, where praise for the English audiences and managers, etc. They say they will return to Europe in 1974 for an indefinite run. They were offered three major awards in Europe, but were compelled to postpone the time, owing to booking already contracted for in America previous to their European engagement. Gordon and Shaker are playing parks. The Prampins are playing for W. S. Cleveland Agency.. Hill and Hill, Westey Hill and wife, are always on the job. Davis and Walker are all booked up for the coming season. Bill Bradley and wife have some good offers for next season. Rastus Brown, the dancer, is still kicking them over in New England. Hustus Brown, the dancer, is still kicking them over in New England. Rowland, tramp jugger, writes from South America that things are lovely. Anderson and Goines still at the Bean City, but booked solid for next season. Deas and Deas just got back from Hazelton, Pa. Harry Reed is still with the act. ton, KA. Harey Keed is still with King and Bailey, Williams and Walker's Chocolate Drops, are in the city, looking good. Watts and Gant are still at North Beach. Copeland and Romer's new act is very good. Watts and Teare are hitting them hard with one of the best musical acts in vaudeville. Jackson Brothers and Furber, Three Kings of Harmony, are entertaining the millionaires as usual. And Lutton are playing around Pittsburgh. So are the Reese Benevolent and Watts. The Colored Vaudeville Benevolent Association is getting bigger, stronger and better every day. Tribble, late of Cole and Johnson's "Red Company," will play at Babe Johnson the season with the Smart Set Com- PERFORMERS WANTED! Vaudeville and Stock, for the Lincoln Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn., leading lady, must have good voice, comedian, soubrette, etc. Vaudeville acts wanted at all times. Piano player, sight reader and transposer. State all you do and the lowest ealary in first letter. Ladies send photos, will be returned. C. F. Johnson, Prop., P. O. Box 524, Knoxville, Tenn. WANTED! For the Florida Blossom Minstrels, a few good musicians and performers at reasonable salaries. Steady work for the right people. Write 301 Fourth Street Macon, Ga. Douglass & Worther, Proprietors. pany's "His Honor the Barber." Oh, you Tribble! Leon Williams' Dixie Serenaders are rehearsing at the Gotham Attacks Publishing Company. The Kraytons, hoop rollers, are still touring Europe, and Jones and Black say that the Jones, Grants and Jones stopped the show at Philadelphia Keith's Theater last week. That's going some. Dan Michael was a big long scream at the C. V. B. A. picnic. He made a large sized hit with everybody. The Cubanola Trio, three colored girls, good act, working at Paradise Park, Fort Glen New York City. Cook and Steven's the original Chinese and the Coon, are booked to appear shortly on the Great Orpheum Circuit. The Famous Wangdooodle Comedy Four—Glen, White, Good and Worries—are having their usual good success. Sam King, of the team Sam and Nellie King, is getting to look like himself again, and Bradford last week. Frank and Eric Clermonto, "Dem 2 Black Dragoon," have so many counter that they will be working until next year this Murphy and Francis, who of late advertise that they work for anybody at any time or place, are working all the time some place. McKissick and Shadney are working. Why shouldn't they? Mack McKissick is one of the most fatt footwear. The Toys, The Roys, Jolly Prices, Fletcher, The Hillmans, The Jeffreys and all other colored vaudeville acts are doing well in the East. Benny Jones is staging all the dancing numbers with the Cole and Johnson Company for the coming season, and Benny is seated there to offer the surprise of the season with his big novelty act. George Williams, late of Smart and Williams, has joined hands with Miss Tillie Smith. The act will be known as Williams and Smith they have excellent bookings. Allen and Tillie have been playing a few choice dates in vaudeville during the summer season, and the press notices from Keith and Proctor's Theater, Elizabeth, were the best ever. Paul Floyd, late of the Golden Gate Quintette, and Tenile Russell, late of the Watermelon Trust, have joined hands, and if indulgence for anything they will present the real goods. Avery and Hart are billed at Keith and Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater as Williams and Walker's successors, and, by the way, Walker is the best selling hit uphold. When the writer saw their act, they were the hit of the entire show. Hodges and Launchmere, the first colored act to play vandellevie in New York City, still press was very liberal in its criticism of this fine colored act last week at the Street Railroad Park at Allentown, Pa. Tom Lemoines and Wilson Arthur. This act in new act, called "Fun in a Governor's Mansion" was very liberal in its criticism of the West End Theater this week, New York City, and the audience is going wild over them, and booking is sure to follow of great consequence. Mr. Boots Allen will be Mr. Dudley's understory this season in "His Honor the Barber". He will also portray the character of Old Man Wilmington White, the best actor in the West End. Boots Allen is one of the best portrayers of the old Negro character in the show business. Another new act for vandellevie is that of John Vaughner, Dora Patterson and Bud Haliday. The act should be a great success. John Vaughner, late of the Vaughners; Dora Patterson, late of Larkins and Patterson, and Bud Haliday, late of the Alabama Comedy Theater. The act is a hit already. What's the use of talking? GOPHERS BEAT WONDERS FOR THREE GAMES Miners Unable to Stop March of Minesotans and Lose Series—London Big Winner. BUXTON, Ia. — The champion Colored Gophers, of St. Paul, Minn., won all three games of the series here, just closed, against the crack Buxton Wonders Baseball Club. Buxton Wonders was a complete enigma to the Buxton boys, and the Gophers won easily, 5 to 0. London, the three-fingered wonder, twirled Saturday's game, letting the Buxton boys win by a single point, ninth inning. The Gophers pounded Carter unmercifully, as the final count shows—13 to 2. Sunday's game developed into a great pitch battle, between Johnnie Davis, for the Gophers, and clever little "Lefty" Pangborn, for the Wonders. Those present witnessed some of the clearest twirling seen on the local diamond this season. The supply was well stocked, and at the end of the ninth the score stood 2 to 2, but in the tenth the Gophers went to the good by some heavy hitting by Wallace, Taylor and Bobby Marty. The supply was not failed to reach first in their half, and the game went to the Gophers, 4 to 2. The scores: Friday's game— R.H.E. Gophers — .0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 -5 Winnings — .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 Batteries—Taylor and McMurray; Pangborn and Rockfeller. Sunday's game Gophers.....0 1 0 3 4 0 1 0 5 0—13 15 1 Wonders.....0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2—1 3 1 Batteries—London and McMurray; Carter and Rockkeller. Sunday's game— RHE. Gophers.....1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 00—4 8 1 Wonders.....0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0—2 6 1 Batteries—Davis and McMurray; Pangborn and Wallace. Notes from the Champion Colored Gophers. Willie McMurray, the St. Louis boy, is catching the game of his life and is hitting like a demon. Little Felix Wallace, with his hitting, clever base running and sensational felding, is a big hit all over the circuit. On our tour of Iowa, which will last about three weeks, we are meeting with much success, and have won fourteen of the sixteen games played up to date. Davis, London and Taylor, the Gophers' great trio of twirlers, are pitching great ball, John one, John last, only two games at season one to Callahan, Logan Squares and one to the Leland Giants. NATIONALS SLAUGHTERED. FRENCH LICK, Ind.-To the tune of 16 to 0, the Bedford Nationals went down in defeat before the hard-hitting Plutos, Sunday. The feature of the game was a triple play with three on bases. Batteries—with both hands and Watt;s (Bedford) Williams and Thomas. CUBS PILE UP BIG SCORES. Cincys, of Cleevland, Overwhelmingly Defeated in, Double Header. By Jesse Palmer LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Of all the games of ball played, the Cincs, of Cleveland, fared the best by a two-hundred which the program. Two thousand and hundred roots were on hand, expecting to see an interesting game, but instead they saw an interesting crowd, but instead they saw an interesting crowd, forgetting their disappointment, en- 5 joyed the slaughter of the innocents. The Cubs made thirteen hits and a total of twenty-one base in the first game, and twelve hits, with a total of twenty-four hits. The Cubs, the Cubs center fielder, was the bright, shining star by making a home run, with three men on bases. He is a speedy base runner. The scores: R.H.E. Cnics 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 - H.E. Lou Cubs. 7 0 1 0 5 1 2 1 *17 17 3 Batteries-Batteries and Buck, West and Mitchell. Two-base hits-Toney, Ruckenthal, and Toney. Two-base hits-Pugh, Schleiver. Home run-Toney, Struck out-By West, 5. Hit by pitcher-Pugh, Collins, Mitchell. Bases on balls-Off Baters, 4; off West, 3. Time-2:05. Umpire-Nutter. Second game: R.H.E. Cnics 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 - H.E. Lou Cubs. 0 3 4 2 2 2 0 1 0 *14 12 3 Batteries-Davis and Slimer; Martin and Mitchell. Two-base hits-Toney, Toney. Three-base hits-West (2). Pugh, Home runs-Sleim, Toney, Collins. Double play-Creater to Slimer to Murphy. Struck out-By Martin, 4; by Davis, 2. Bases on pitcher-2; off Davis, 4. Passed ball-Buck. Time-2:00. Umpire-Nutter. Attendance-2,500. Little Mitchell is still in the game. Say, Rob, old fellow, get a move on you. Captain Wallace played his usual steady game. Sorry that Watson got hurt. Oh, well, we have Pugh and Toney. West and Martin only toyed with the Cincys. Both batted in good form. Next Saturday and Sunday, August 28-29, the St. Louis Giants will play the Cubs. Pug's throwing is certainly good, and his batting and base running will help win many games. Briscoe is still playing gilt-edge ball in left, and hits with a regularity that please his friends. Collins, by throwing the runner out on a right field hit, did a fast bit of fielding, and also made a home run. Hats off to Booker. The old Roman gave the hats exhibition of first base playing seen here this season. Toney's playing must be gratifying to his many admirers. His fielding is perfect, and his batting strikes terror to the heart of any SLUGGERS MAKING GOOD Special to THE FREEMAN. SPARTANBURG, S. C.—Greenville crossed the Mississippi River on Monday afternoon in a double-header. The Sluggers, by their superior and all-around good play, the Stars in both playoffs. Jack Hamilton, the back of the Sluggers, was on the mound, and the Stars never had a look in or hope for victory. The Sluggers have fifteen out of seven games. PENSACOLAS LOSE TO GIANTS Special to THE FREEMAN PENSACOLA, Fla.—Pensacola was defeated Wednesday by the Birmingham Giants. B. Taylor, the Giants' southpaw, was on the mound, and showed great form. He scored three scattered hits. The local team is fast, but could not blockade the Giants' pathway. LOGANSPORT. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Cass Lodge No. 4284, G. U. O. F. will give a grand picnic at Kinetley's Island, Monday, September 6. Everybody bring your baskets and have a good time. There will be a fire pit and guns" after which the jolly bunch will engage in fishing, hunting, swimming and various kinds of amusements too numerous to count. The stunts will be pulled off by Brothers King and Gibson, while Brothers Payton and Malone will do the greased pole act. Fireworks evening. Refreshments served on the grounds. Evening. Refreshments served on the members served free. Come one, come all. ... Mrs. Mabel Kelly and Miss Ora Dunlap, members served free. The city as the guests of Mrs. James Carter. THE FREEMAN AT CHICAGO. Geo. Knox's Barber Shop 5542 Lake ave. Hyde Park Shoe Shining Parlor 110% Erasmus 560. B. Davis 5532 State st. J. C. Barber Shop 2110 State. E. D. Burts 2636 State. E. H. Faulkner 3104 State. Thos. H. Crump 3704 State. Jno. H. Jackson 261 29th st. E. Polly 368 30th st. W. T. Mason, 1617 Benson ave., Evanson, Ill. The Freeman can be secured at 424 E. St. 1108 Walt St.-Thomas Lathrop, Lathrop, Agent. ALL 1ST CLASS COLORED ACTS ALL 1ST CLASS COLORED ACTS 1317 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT MEALS AT ALL HOURS Telephone, Grand. 2109 Young's Hotel & Buffet Cafe and Restaurant Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars LOUIS YOUNG, Prop. John Malone, Business Mgr. Fourth and Cedar Sts. Milwaukee, Wis. Up-to-date Music, Neatly Uniformed. Ready all the time. Address C. C. PHILLIPS, Mgr, 37 N. Walnut St., Champaign, Ill. S. Tutt Whitney AND J. Homer Tutt The Hoosier Comedians and Producers, Heading the Presenting their Song Hits: "Dat's Sifficiency," "Strutting Sam" and "Smile On Sue." IS WANTED! Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn., leading lady, ette, etc. Vaudeville acts wanted at all transposer. State all you do and the d photos, will be returned. C. F. John- enn. TED! musicians and performers at reasonable salar e 301 Fourth Street Macon, Ga. Douglass & 6 COMFORTS AT FAIR Improvements at Indiana Exposition to Help the Visitors Enjoy a Week of Sight-Seeing. SOME FEATURES FOR WOMEN They Find Profitable Enjoyment in All Departments—Flower Show on New Basis—Natiello's Band, of Philadelphia, Indianapolis Military and Newsboys' Bands Will Give Concerts. Looking to the comfort of its thousands of visitors from over the state the week of Sept. 6, the management of the State Fair is making numerous improvements on the grounds at Indianapolis. The system of cement walks about the grounds is being extended by 1,000 feet of paving, and in time all of the important buildings of the fair will be so connected, most of them now being reached by these walks. The water supply for the coming fair will be provided from deep-driven wells, to which a pump with a capacity of 600 gallons a minute will be attached. The fair in September is to be a dustless exposition. The roadways were oiled last summer, and before the next fair will have another heavy coating of crude petroleum. Turnstiles have been placed at the gates that visitors can be better taken care of and that gatemen may perform their work with less difficulty than in other years. The fair management in working out its improvement ideas from year to year keeps in mind especially the visitors from away from Indianapolis. This has led to the placing of many drinking fountains about the grounds, the building of a grandstand and open seats along the racetrack with a total capacity of 18,000 people. It led to the erection of the coliseum, where there are 5,000 free seats for the day horse and cattle shows, and, should a heavy rain come, this building will easily shelter 20,000 people. Scores of settees are scattered under the shade trees about the grounds, and visitors are always free to bring their baskets from home and spread lunch on the grassy plots. No gambling on the races is allowed at the Indiana Fair. No intoxicating liquors are permitted. No games of chance to fleece the unwary are in operation. No immoral shows are conducted. The grounds are policed by forty men. It is always the purpose of the fair management to make the exposition clean, wholesome and safe for women and children, and the result has been that about two women to one man come to it from over the state. The fair officials in providing entertainment for the women have by experience found they enjoy practically every department. The women like the horse and cattle shows, the races, and it is common to find women have left their farm homes before day and are about the barns looking at the blooded dairy cattle long before Indianapolis people have breakfasted. The poultry show always holds the interest of the women, as does the exhibitions of fruits and flowers, the honey displays and the dairy products, with the Purdue demonstrations in butter making. The fair's flower show is on a new basis this year, being in the charge of the Indiana Florists' Association. Classes have been provided for both professional and amateur growers, and farm and town women who have beds of asters, begonias, geraniums, dahlias, snapdragons and other flowers about their doors can compete. The total flower prizes amount to over $800, and there is promise that there will be many more competitors than in other years. In the same building the show of fruits will be given, the prizes for fruits and flowers reaching $1,800. In the honey show $250 in prizes will be awarded. The display of table luxuries is always interesting to the women, and many of the best makers of bread, cakes, preserves, candy and pastry compete for the prizes, which at the coming fair amount to over $200. The Fine Arts building is again going to overflow with displays of needlework, hand-made lace, embroideries, photography, arts and crafts, oil paintings and water colors, hand-painted china and ceramics. Some of the exhibitors who have carried off ribbons year after year need to look to their laurels at the coming fair, for there will be some fresh competition from new sources. Among the new exhibitors will be the art students of the John Herron Art Institute at Indianapolis. If ribbons in the art department are more difficult to win at the next fair, it will make these trophies all the more worth having and the displays of higher quality. The fair in September will offer a feast of concert band music which will be pleasing both to town and country women, as well as all other visitors. Natiello's band of fifty men will play in the coliseum afternoon and evening. The Indianapolis Military band will give morning concerts in the coliseum and at the races in the afternoon. The Indianapolis Newsboys' band will play during the day near the Administration building. Natiello's band is a concert organization of high merit and will present many musical features during its Fair engagement. 14 LIVE STOCK PARADES AT THE INDIANA STATE FAIR. The live stock parades form one of the choice features of the Indiana state fair. They are given on days when crowds are largest, 40,000 or 50,000 people often seeing hundreds of America's best horses and cattle move along the drives of the grounds. At night the parades are repeated on very elaborate scale in the Coliseum. The premiums on show horses and cattle for the coming state fair, week of Sept. 6, amount to $14,807. The live parades form one of the choice features of the Indiana state fair. They are given on days when crowds are largest, 40,000 or 50,000 people often see hundreds of America's best horses and cattle move along the drives of the grounds. At night the parades are repeated on very elaborate scale in the Coliseum. The premiums on show horses and cattle for the coming state fair, week of Sept. 6, amount to $14,807. NEGRO COOKING WORLD'S BEST "Come to Charleston, S. C., if you want the best cooking in the world," said C. H. Richmond of that city. "The old 'Negro mammy' is better in the kitchen than the greatest French chef any hotel can boast here or in New York, or anywhere, for that matter. You ought to eat the cornbread and cracklin' that we have down there, or fish and other sea food, freshly caught and prepared in our style. You then would know what real food it. Not only can the old 'mammies' lay it all over any of your imported culinary experts in cooking edibles of all sorts, but they know how to make the finest home-made wines and cordials from grapes and other berries. Any one would be surprised to see the number of these women, who are relics of the civil war. One would think that they all would be dead at this date, but nearly every Charleston family of wealth has one of them, many having been slaves in the same families before the war."—Washington Post We just rise to say that when it comes to their cooking ability that they are plenty good enough for us. Of course, these chefs—French and other kinds—have stirred up some mysterious stews in their days, and good, too. But it seems that they have depended on numerous things for their result—things unknown to the average kitchen. Now, an old mammy just depends on her skill in getting results. The chef may concoct a new dish, but when it comes to the dishes we all know about—the plain, simple foods—go 'way, Mr. Frenchman, kase mammy knows just what to do to 'em. The chef disdains some mighty good dishes, considers them beneath his notice, but he is paying for his folly—missing half of his life. Turn one of these mammies loose in a kitchen with all conveniences, give her all she needs by way of food-stuffs—don't mean to be disrespectful to hotels, but one would think of them as being for folk that "didn't have no homes." The writer spoke about cornbread and cracklin' that they had down South. And we had that right up here in Indianapolis some years ago. The colored people are getting away from it—taking after the chefs—hence the dish is sort of a lost art. And when it comes to cornbread by itself, who makes it like the old mammy? Don't need any butter on it; no meat. "no nothin." But if one have some assistance just take some fresh churned butter and some buttermilk. Now, everybody just please stay out for about twenty minutes. The chef trusts his ham and cabbage to the fourth, fifth or sixth cook. So it comes up all white and colley looking—too little salt, no red pepper, and the essence of ham. The old mammy cook never trusted that important dish to any one; she presides there. The cabbage comes up with the shining, yellow, pinkish that all shotten through with ham—the "ham that am." Plenty flavor. The colored people only know how to cook cabbage. They make it their dish in toto most of the time; hence it must be very savory, that is, it is not merely a side dish; it is the whole meal. All that the mammies do along the cooking line is simplicity, but the picture of wholesomeness. One hasn't much time for side dishes when one of their "pieces de resistance" is on. GET ON A MOVE Some one deploring the condition of Liberia thought it was tending toward idolatry, heathenism. It is a mistaken notion. The Negro once knowing civilization, never slinks back to the condition in which he was first found. He may stagnate after having reached a certain point in his development, but to become a bushman again—never. The tendency, when let alone, is not that way. Ease and idleness, unmindful of the future, the lack of spirit to contract for ninety-nine years ahead, are some of the qualifications the white man's vigorous civilization around about seems necessary to spur up to the total possibility, but he will not turn heathen under any circumstances. The Negro, once civilized, detests heathenism. Somehow he seems possessed with the notion that his sorry plight in the world is due to this very heathenism. In fact, he knows it. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER He hears nothing but contemptuous reference to his forbears. He knows that the great bulk of his kind is a pitiable spectacle of humanity, consequently by the law of contraries grows strongly adverse to it. The civilized Negro runs to the other extreme, as if goaded on by what they know of the "fatherland." Apparently endeavoring to make good the capacity for civilization, and as if the thing had been doubted. So in haste to escape the contumely they too often affect the manners of the very much civilized. In consequence the mad effort at luxury is everywhere manifest in nearly every civilized Negro in one way or the other. A certain eminent professor in lecturing before a great body of educated people several years ago said that Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen or of whatever nationality, when leaving home carried with them the traits of their nationality. It is self-evident, since men cannot altogether escape themselves. So the Irish, the Jews, the Japanese, will be seen doing some of those things learned when home, and will continue until time and circumstance has obliterated the strain. Hence, it is not reasonable to think the Negro will wholly escape his race characteristics until time and circumstances do their part. The Liberians, some of whom are recent recruits from barbarism, the others uninfluenced by the white man's vigorous civilization, more than likely are possessed with the tendency towards idleness and ease—the disposition to let the future look out for the future. The inherent disposition is what alis Liberia, and in saying so we are not saying more against that people than what is said of those in America. It is only within recent years that the American Negro has seen the necessity of doing and acting precisely as the white men if he expected what the white man's civilization brought to him. Longing for the good things of life did not bring them. The race is beginning to learn that it must sow, reap. It is not the lions of the field that-Solomon tells about. It must work out its salvation. The meeting of the Negro business men at Louisville next month is the result of the awakening in America. A few years ago the movement began headed by that grand American Negro, Booker T. Washington. As it progressed the wilderness began to blossom as a rose. Negro men lost that too reserved feeling, that too austere dignity as if they came from the loins of kings, took hold of the trades, the shops, bending their energies to make them go just as the white men do. Owing to the incentive business is springing up like magic, and banks, insurance companies, agricultural associations, and what not, testifying to the new life of industrialism. Liberia is not surrounded by the white man's civilization. It is unfortunate. However, it is within hailing distance. The newspapers, the cables, the steamships, serve to keep it in touch. The very age is big with progression. Sluggish nations are coming up, caught on to the healing stream. The waters are also troubled for Liberia, in that it is not denied anything of civilization's achievements; it ought to step in and be healed also. It has no plausible complaint. The land is not ravaged, blighted with disease; the soil is fertile; the climate is ideal; its vegetation is rich and varied. Arouse ye, Robinson Crusoes, and carve out your destiny! Under the very favorable circumstances Liberia means opportunities. All nature conspires in its favor. In the veritable garden of Eden man alone seems to be the holdback. Given the conditions to another people, then what? Has Liberia the right to be less, to do less? And then, too, Liberia owes it to itself as a Negro state to stand out and make good the Negro boost of capacity and efficiency. It must stand convicted of the quality of its men, not of soil, climate or natural resources. The cry has been, send us men, send us people. Go to the bush. They are entangled there. Extricate them; work them over into men and brothers. The cry has been for money. It is not consistent with conditions. Commerce begets money; industrialism begets commerce. When complaint goes out that Liberia cannot sell what it produces and honestly based, then, and not until then, ought the situa- the face of the earth. It doesn't make any difference what the thing is or whether is is of any use. A couple of fellows landed at Gatun one day and set up an outfit. All in the world they had was a wooden head that twisted around in a grotesque fashion and which the owners said could tell fortunes. I suppose it cost probably $2 to $3. The Jamaicans swarmed in that tent like flies all day long to have their fortunes told by the wooden-headed seer. Next day I saw the two fakers carrying a sack full of coin and it was about all they could do to lift it over to the denp "On pay-day at Empire, which is the largest pay station on the canal, the line extends from the pay cars back as far as the eye can reach. Sometimes it takes the whole day to settle with the laborers. Awaiting the paid-off men is a market the like of which was never seen in all the world. There are Hindus with bright shawls, fancy handkerchiefs and dazzling ribbons; hoodoo doctors with strange charms that ward off evil and bring wealth untold; old hags offering to tell fortunes; half-clad girls with baskets of pineapples, oranges and bananas; boys in the same costume or perhaps less of it with chewing gum and candy; photographers, ready to take pictures; writers tendering their services to indie letters, and so on beyond computation—sometimes five hundred people are The Loyal Co-Operative LIMI The Loyal Legion Co-Operative Investment Co. LIMITED. To the Public; Western Canada is offering opportunity section of the North American continent from all parts of the world to take advan But how about the millions who are pre everywhere abounding here on account of Millions of acres of the very best land through its yearly yield from $20 to $75 Western Canada is offering opportunities to the world to-day such as no other section of the North American continent can afford. Thousands are coming here from all parts of the world to take advantage of the golden opportunities offered. But how about the millions who are prevented from sharing in the opportunities everywhere abounding here on account of circumstances that keep them at home? Millions of acres of the very best land on the continent—land capable of earning through its yearly yield from $20 to $75 an acre—can be bought at prices ranging from $6 to $18 per acre. This land in the course of a few years will be selling from $20 to $100 an acre. Speculators are rapidly gathering it up, and those who fail to get in while it is available will be compelled to pay the speculators their own price for property which can readily be gotten now at first cost. But listen! A way has been provided by which thousands can stay right where they are and you can be the remarkable opportunities that last great fertile field. If you have but $10 to add that to your scarce of excellent land, will be worth four times its present value within five years from now. With small amounts from thousands, thousands of acres can be secured that will be worth to the company many times their present cost. There is no speculation in this—it is a dead certainty, and if labor is employed by the company to develop this land, much thousands of dollars in more can be made for the company, in which each one will share according to his results. This appeal is made to you—not to be laid aside and considered later, but with the request that you will act to-day and help us lay a foundation through the securing of thousands of acres of good land here at first cost which can be divided up into small farms later on and sold at a price that will not the company a good good income, while at the same time will be a God-send to thousands who will come in here after these opportunities have passed, and who will be glad to give of their brown and muscle in their development, and from which thousands can be fed everywhere in their development, and from our in thought and richer in all of the elements that go to make up a perfect life. The affairs of the company are so arranged that not one dollar of the principal of the money sent in for investment can be used to defray the expenses of the company. The profits of the company are to be completed, and substantial profits are being made for those who have already invested. If the company be so successful, no Jasper Avenue East, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, O F Box 885, Acreswa rights. A Proclamation It is hereby announced for the benefit of every person in this community that there will appear in this paper two of the brightest and cleverest stories ever written by that popular author HAROLD MacGRATH entitled The Best Man A charming tale for lovers of romance and humor, and Two Candidates Being a short story of love and politics. Watch these columns for the opening installment which will be printed in the near future. tion be considered serious. It will not be understood that we are in opposition to any relief that may go to the Negro republic. We are in favor of any steps that may be taken to help the country to its "feet," and also for a stern admonishing of its sense of duty. THE RACE STRUGGLE FOR WORK. "First-class white people, North or South, have ever been friendly towards our people, but God deliver us from the lower grades of whites—the trash." This is the opinion of a Negro, writing from Georgia to the Gazette, of Cleveland, a loyal paper of his own race. The quotation is preceded by a description of a brutal attack by a white mob upon a Negro locomotive fireman during the recent railroad strike in Georgia (p. 589), from which a white woman of what the writer calls the "first class" had protected the Negro. It is doubtless true that the brutally cruel treatment of the Negro by some whites at the South comes from what the writer we quote calls "trash." The aristocratic element are, as a rule, kind to individual Negroes, whatever their views may be of the proper status of the Negro as a class; and equally, as a rule, the poor white working class are apt to be brutally cruel. An instance in point is furnished by this Georgia strike. The white firemen struck to compel the railroad to stop giving Negro firemen better firework on the basis of greater length of service; and its ultimate object was very likely to exclude Negroes from that kind of service altogether. The sympathy of the working whites of Georgia was with the strikers in this controversy, while that of the aristocratic whites was with the Negroes. This fact alone is strong confirmation of the contention we have frequently made (p. 529), that the race question at the South, while influenced by tradition, is at bottom a labor question. If jobs were not scarce in Georgia the white locomotive firemen would have no incentive to exclude Negroes from that kind of work. But when jobs are scarce, individual fights individual for what jobs there are, and class fights class; and if class lines coincide with race lines, then race fights race. It would be so at the North. It would be so anywhere. It would be the same if the class line were religious, and even if it were a *pix* line instead of a class line. We might add that precisely as the race question at the South is a labor question, so the labor question there is a land question. If the unused and poorly used land of Georgia were held upon a tenure that made its owners keen to put it to its best use, jobs in Georgia wouldn't be scarce. And isn't it quite natural—human naturely natural—that when the owners of land have no incentive to use it to its best, they shall hold it out of its best use in large measure? And when they hold it out of its best use, don't they restrict the demand for work? And when the demand for work is restricted, aren't jobs scarce, don't men who live by work scramble for employment? And when there are two distinct races, divided by social lines, among the workers, isn't the scramble certain to generate a race war? And in this race war isn't it also quite human naturely natural—Anglo-Saxony natural at any rate—that they who are in the midst of the life and death struggle for employment shall be brutal toward those of the "inferior" race, while the leisure class, "personally unaffected by the bitterness of the fight, whichever way it may go, are kind? We condemn nobody for this. We excuse nobody. We merely state a broad fact of human experience, and suggest a responsibility which no one of either race can safely evade.—The Public. LAZIEST OF MORTALS. A writer in the New York Sun does not think very much of the Jamaican Negro. He makes the following observation: "These Negroes are widely different from the American brand. They haven't the slightest idea of music and can't even dance. It delights their ears just as much to hammer on a couple of tin pans as it would to hear the finest orchestra in the land. They are gullible beyond comprehension. You could sell 'em anything on Authorized Capital $2,000,000 there trying to earn a penny from the laborer by selling him something he doesn't want, but thinks he does. "One reason why the Jamaica Negro is so hard to energize is because he understands he is a British subject and he thinks that King Edward is averse to his being worked too hard, and that if he learns of it he will send warships along to start trouble. "If a few of the old Mississippi steamboat mates could be recalled temporarily from the happy land to instruct the Jamaicans in the art of moving along the canal could be completed ahead of the schedule time." MY CREED. I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe—the friendless; I would be giving and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up—and laugh—and love, and lift. —H. A. Walter. Royal Legion Live Investment Co. LIMITED. 1 Capital $2,000,000 EDMONTON, ALBERTA. August 10, 1908 opportunities to the world to-day such as no other continent can afford. Thousands are coming here advantage of the golden opportunities offered. Are prevented from sharing in the opportunities account of circumstances that keep them at home? Best land on the continent—land capable of earning to $75 an acre—can be bought at prices ranging in the course of a few years will be selling from are rapidly gathering it up, and those who fail to compelled to pay the speculators their own price be gotten now at first cost. Provided by which thousands can stay right where remarkable opportunities of this last great fertile soil, that will buy an acre of excellent land—land that cost within five years from now. With small investment the expected will be the present cost. There is no speculation in this—it is employed by the company to develop this land, can be made for the company, in which each one ment. not to be laid aside and considered later, but with day and help us lay a foundation through the seed land here at first cost which can be divided up. The time will be a God-send to thousands who will come to be a God-send to thousands who will come to be a God-send to thousands can be feder in character, purer in thought and richer in all up a perfect life. Are so arranged that not one dollar of the principal corn can be used to pay the expenses the company must fund foundation work, has now been made being made for those who have already invested. Request. Address 240 Jasper Avenue East, Edmon-802. Agents wanted. oclamation SPORTING GOSSIP of the WEEK. JOHNSON MAY WEAKEN JEFF WITH CONSTANT POUNDING IN THE MID- SECTION THE SMOKE MAY ALSO NIUGJIM UP WITH MIS HARD RIGHT LIPPERGUT SPORTING NOTES. By HARRY W. JACKSON. The league temperatures are rising. Johnson and that automobile once more! Australia wants the Johnson-Jeffries fight. The Louisville Cubs are under a new management. And even now the question is, are they going to fight? Signals—13, 23, 44. "Tain't so powerful long off, boys. In the 416 teams of the 52 leagues there are 6,500 players. Who holds the title, the Gophers or the Philadelphia Giants? Hans Wagner's salary is the highest in the professional baseball world. The Birmingham Giants play a good game to the conviction of the Mobililians. The Gophers' record for season of 1908: Games won, 116; games lost, 21; games tied, 1. The Hoosier capital has been quite a sensation in the sporting world this year: National balloon race, national motorcycle and national automobile races. Joe Martina, of New Orleans, breaks the world's long-distance throw, raising a baseball at 47 feet, which is 10 feet far than any other man has succeeded in throwing. Libby, Mont., has a baseball club that has never been defeated. The club has been in existence for fifteen years, and the world's record for longest win- FOUR KINGS WANT GAMES. Special to THE FREEMAN. DUQUOIN IL—The Four Kings are open for engagements. They recently defeated a white team in southern Illinois by a score of 3 to 1. The game lasted only four and nineteen minutes. CURS MAY LOSE EMORY. Special HUSSVILLE, Ky. It is rumored that Jim Emmery, center fielder for the Louis- ville Cubs, will leave soon, soon, after the West Baden, and Stratford is now with the Cubs. MILES AGAINST UNKNOWN. SPEAKING GUTTLEH, Okla.—Al Miles, the Chicago wonder, who recently defeated aighter from Gatesmouth, who calls his team Gans. Second, is matched an unknown for a near date. KID WHITE'S NEW GYMNASIUM. Special FREESHIP FEA. PA. William Archie Kenny, better known as Kid White, the local prize fighter of this city, who meets all conners in pounds, and has lost him last six months. He has a record to be proud of, having fought twenty-seven battles and lost one. He has opened a gymnasium at 1401 10th Street, designed by the white as well as colored aspirants. A TEAM OF ALL NATIONS. Sometimes even baseball teams are appropriately dubbed by the public. Here we have the Bangor team, of the Northern Maine League, known as the "Congress of Nations." Among the players are McGraw, the manager of a Canadian Gardelia, an Italian; Pond, an Englishman; Sedgequit, a Swede, and among the others are included a Hebrew, a full-blooded Indian, a Scotchman and a German, the manager, of course, is an American engineer; a navalman gnorlifying in the mellifluous name of Marcellus Finnegan. CHRISTY HARD ON HIT AND RUN PLAY NEW YORK—Christy Mathewson and Fred Tenney of the Giants, have a neat little thing they work to prevent the hit midair, or to head off an aspiring base stealer. With a man on first, Mathewson suddenly whips the ball to Tenney, who pays attention, and bends back to the base to avoid being caught. Instead, Tenney returns the ball to "Big six at such an angle that Christy, catcher, throws the ball to the batter," pitcher's plate, gives with the ball, and without the loss of a second brings his mighty right arm forward and delivers the ball to the batter. The runner is close to the base, while the batter, unless particularly wide awake, is caught napping. The success of the scheme depends entirely on the ball, the batter, unless particularly wide awake, is caught napping. As soon as Mathewson throws the ball he returns to his position on the bill, gets the ball on his right side, and returns it he gives with the ball, is so natural that he able to deliver it to the plate like lightning. Just to show how far they carry things the masters it might be mentioned that Tenney can throw it for a month before springing it in a game. THE COOL PLAYER IN PREFERENCE TO NERVOUS ONE "The exitable baseball player is no use to me," said a well-known manager. "Like business or anything else, it's your cool, pliable hand. You'll need to keep it long run. You'll find that when it comes down to the fine point, the cool player is always right on the job with the quick touch. The man who shows any symptoms of nerves or irritability during a game is the man that always loses his head at the critical moment. Give me the seemingly normal response. Once that he's got the reserve power in his pincer, take for instance a pitcher. Now, every one knows that the strain on a pitcher's brain is a terrific. Once a pitcher loses his brain, he can't handle it. Yank him out of the box right away, sure, his control has gone from that inception. Study the temperament of your players, then them just the same as a physician diagnoses you. Watch for nervous symptoms. Weed out the players who need a 'bracer' to steady their fingers switch or who gets so that he can hardly coherate. Talk kindly to the man whose excitement arises purely from nerves. Sympathy with him, and explain to him the necessity of keeping his nerves under control, but not in pain, however, because that would only add to his burden. Yes, everything depends, upon the temperament of a man. A cool example, though, sometimes works wonders with players. Take nearly all the players in the league, and of German extraction, a nation known for temperament, and see how many of them are right at the top of the business." BASEBALL NOW A THINKING GAME, SAYS WATKINS The latter day ball players will tell you that baseball is certainly factor in this day and time, but he finds it a pretty hard thing to explain. President Watkins, of the Indianapolis A. A. club, probably analyzed the situation properly when he answered the question by saying: "Baseball is faster and more scientific, for the same reason that other professions are. You have to be more aggressive to have the newspapers improved? Why have the railroads improved? Why have the graph and telephone improved? and so on. "They have all improved," Watkins continued, "because the world is growing smarter every day, and people are profit-driven. So the world of their predecessors. For instance, there have been a constant struggle between the pitchers and batters for thirty years, and the players have both would improve by the experience. "I admit," said Watkins, "that there were just as good batters in the old days, and as good players as they have now. When it comes to natural speed, Hittin is purely a test of the eye, and men had as good eyes then as they have now. Baseball is as good a speed as the speed of speed, and men were just as fast then are now. But the methods of both hitting and base running now are different. Baseball is as much a game of an acting game than a basketball now the reverse is true. We can make more runs on fewer hits now than we ever have, and waste no energy, but we all count. "I would be foolish to say that baseball has not improved in twenty years," said Frank Bowerman, "but I am free to admit that the championship from Baltimore won the best ball club I ever saw. There are mighty few things done on the field to-day that can be done by the Boston club, we venture to say that one did Boston club have beaten the Chicago Cubs two years ago, when they were going so fast. But that is not going back to twenty years of baseball, and has come about through one club try. The plays started by another. The battle of wits between the offensive and defensive of baseball has sharpened the minds of all of us. We have the two advocates of baseball in the big league if he were a good hitter and thrower, whether he was particularly bright or not. To-day every man in the league has been there. We have the two advocates of modern baseball. Now listen to this by Perry Warden: I went to watch these games mighty close, and if they are pulling anything that we did not pull, they have got to show me. The main improvement I see in baseball, and I will admit that, is the fact that we have been playing than in the old days when I played, and that may be the reason that the hitting is not so good. We ran bases just as well as baseball, just as many good tricks to make runs. LONG GAMES OF BIG LEAGUE BASE BALL Twenty-four Innings. Sept. 1, 1960 Athletics, Boston 1. Twenty-four Innings. July 20, 1982—Chicago 7, Cincinnati 7. July 4, 1905—Athletics 4, Boston 2. Aug. 24, 1904—Chicago 2, Philadelphia 1 Nationals. July 22, 1905—Athletics 2, Pittsburg 2. Eighteen Innings. July 25, 1903—White Sox 6, New York 6. Aug. 17, 1902—St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 7. July 24—Cubs 2, Cardinals 1. Minor Leagues' Longest Games. Twenty-six Innings. May 30, 1909—Decatur 2, Bloomington 1 Twenty-two Innings. May 20, 1984—Sacramento 4, Cincinnati 4. Twenty-five Innings. July 18, 1890—Fargo 0, Grand Forks 0. Twenty-four Innings. May 11, 1888—Manchester 0 Eighteen Innings. July 3, 1909—Columbus 12, Toledo 1. Detroit's Other 18-Inning Game. Over the last half of the eighteenth Pitcher Haleburn only other eighteenth-inning game, played against Providence Aug. 17, 1882. In the last half of the eighteenth Pitcher Haleburn only other eighteenth-inning game, played against Providence Aug. 17, 1882. In the last half of the eighteenth Pitcher Haleburn only other eighteenth-inning game, played against Providence Aug. 17, 1882. MARTIN'S "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" A BIG HIT Colored Boys Please Audience in a Great Play. Plays may come and plays may go but, Al W. Martin's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shall go on forever, according to the way people once accustomed to the three days' engagement here at the Park Theater, August 19, 20 and 21. Everybody, both young and old, seemed to enjoy this historic old melodrama gem to the utmost because this company was the performance all — This year Mr. William Kibble, who is sole owner of the show, as the official route card announces, has banded together an most excellent company of players. The team, led by the observer. There are four acts and fifteen scenes, all new and costly looking. Light effect, color, music, laughter, sorrow, all blend, putting together in the right places to create a scene crossing the ice, the deathbed of Eva, the slave market and the transformation scene are set in such a manner that no regular theater-goer has ever seen surpassed, and perhaps not done as well as the AL W. They have bloodhounds, mules, etc. Then they have There is some acting done in this show, and a lot of it by colored men who know a good deal of the music they all use. Twice of them are good musicians, good mored and of an intelligent bearing. Mr. Lew Francis, who conducts this set, is a trained artist with gentlemanly ways. Not since the days of "The South Before the War" you have you heard such good singers as Tom McFadden and his fellows do. Why, that Hot Toma Quartette, which is composed of W. C. Lucus, Jerry McFudson, and Charley McFudson that bring its name implied stuff! They bring down the house after every song. Wait! When the Whang-doodle Quartet, composed of Gus Collins, John McFadden, and Lew Francis, swings in to sing, you imagine your are back to your Southern home on the old farm on a moonlight night. You are back to the music warbling. These eight singers have ex- JOHNSON MAY WEAKEN JEFF WITH CONSTANT POUNDING IN THE MID- SECTION THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER cellent voices, and can not fail to please any one under the sound of their voices, the music, the dance and dance better, and it seems that they do both so well that you are sorry to see them close their act. This roster is as strong as Walter Revells, W. C. Lucas, J. C. Cole, Jerry McHudson, Harry E. Thompson, Charley Jones, Frank May, Ed BMetters and many others. Did you ever see a jewel in human form? Well, Baby Beatrice is surely one in the greatest way. She makes a lovable little Eva, because she is such a pretty, smart dainty, witty little girl — a child that, I've must have been like, did she ever exist. Joseph Barnum does the Marks we have never seen anywhere beat, because he is well suited for that part, for he really is a funny funmaker. Gus Collins did, in deed, well as Uncle Tom, holding well to his lines and looking to his gestures at the proper places. Freda Mier was at once a great hit as Topsy, being entertaining at all times. Taking the show as a whole, the management has put together a good, strong entertainment, and much appreciation is due them for their effort. The Al W. Martin "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company can come again and again, and always have packed houses if they are giving such a performance as the one given here last. CHARLES D. MARSHALL RAMBLING At this day there is no longer doubt as to the various lines that are to be pursued by the colored people in America. Condition of the South, in the North, will be the South, and in the North the trend is well established. True enough, the North gives evidence of race coalition in spots, and the appearance of racial serenity, but also the appearance of racial prejudice, a similar condition will prevail. It would be well, if true; that is, if the color of the were buried so deep that it could not be seen. If the were buried so deep that it would find a Tartar, it is said. The application ought to be plain. In other words, one can see race distinction anywhere he chooses to look for it. In consequence of the color of the, it takes advantage of it. The same thing has been said often elsewhere. In an industrial way the South particularly is reading the South, and is being governed accordingly. But it is not of the industrial phase that I wish to speak at this time. It takes more than downright industry to make a name for a people. Industry plus industry is important, and rating in the world. It is needless to say that the bread and butter question is an important question, and most especially to those who find the cupboard void of the bread and butter. But happily the Negro-Americans know no such stress of life. And there's the rub. But to live merely, to eat or wear good clothes, is not much of an existence, yet the race as having just such a disposition—to eat, to drink and to wear good clothes. In the hurry incident to money-making, the thing of "unpreparation" is noted; it may not be glaringly manifest, but it may be a serious problem for women, when showing ability are solicited for the stage, or they solicit a place in a theatrical company—a commendable thing, but it is not the right one for all effort at higher compensation beyond that which is necessary to insure continued employment. Take singing for instance; no race is more richly endowed than white, and it is not easy to say that, reflection comes as to the why. Then I think God must have given the talent as compensation for the lil' of life, and that is the best talent the best talent on the ugliest condition, thus averaging up to a possible existence. And, as is the case in other instances, that of money, particularly, the race is prodigal, and that of interest—do not put it to the right kind of interest. If one takes it on himself, he may note with what pride the thing of good voices is mentioned among the white people. Note how the good voices discovered now and then. Then an anisus in a desert, are treasured. They are sent up and sent to Europe for the full frultion. Silly or wise, it is what is done, showing the store set by the voices—the extent of appreciation for the existence, and the need to care for it, the poor of course, cannot hope for such interest, but at the earliest convenience the young women, the young men of good voices, when of intelligence and cultivation, find themselves in demand. The well-to-do women voices cultivate them for arts' sake, as they cultivate their talents in other directions. The point is here: most of the race seem to be a sort of the action that is to be a result of the�, and, owing to such disposition, much of what life holds for them is missed. The poorest of peoples have not neglected to cultivate the arts. Indeed, it appears that they were in instances driven to the art side as a sort of vent for their pent-up lives. So we have handed down vases in rich art forms, many of which cannot be duplicated, at least with profit, from the various nations of antiquity. We marvel at the rugs made by the somewhat obscure Orients, who perhaps did not dream of their great money value of to-day. Then the Egyptians and their gossamer fabrics, and such like, proving the higher consideration in which art was held. Even the Indians, especially those of Southern America, including South America, did not forget to try their hand at making something purely ornamental. The object of all this is to show that something has been done for the sake of art since the morning stars sang together. I make no mistake when I say that there was more of the proper art fervor immediately after the war than exists at the time of the war, "big house" was on. The Negro mother longed for the day when her little ones could know the doings of the great people, the same came, and was about bringing her dream to life. They counted for the marked thoroughness of education, musical and otherwise, of those of that period, or of an immediate subsequence of that period, and other influence, too, that helped them on. The Negroes did not dream of a day when what they did would be mostly among the educated, but that separation had beaten paths, to move as other us unidentified further than of that general classification. American citizens. But, alas, it was not the case that the separation had its educational value. That most singularly void of mutual regard, giving the white people their cue to proclaim against them; thus the country was not so divided as it was among the people, of colored people. Hardships are doing what love and kindness could not do, at least was not doing; but in the past, the country was not thorough on the art side is declining. Singers of to-day, if you will, to finish, with those of earlier days. There are many more and perhaps of better voices of the past, but it ends there—a note is a lost art. I said that as for general endowment of singing ability the Negro race was most blessed, and, too, that it was not putting its talent to proper interest. The race needs all the incentive it has known in the past and more. It needs to move with past and future. The great race way for the encouragement of great singers among the race who feel it to be out of their line to essay the vaudeville stage as now known among the race. The great effort was made to induce these greater singers to appear in concert in the greater ottes, backing them up by great trained actors, to draw on chances for financial success even poor the worst in experience, was groping its way along. To but-to-day, when the route is well marked there is but little doubt as to do that to draw the great artists. Tanner, the great Negro, of a beggarly existence were it not for his white patrons. The race would not think of paving the way for the great singers, and paving the line away, owing to sheer neglect, in Europe or some other place out of the public mind. The gift of song is held by many the great. Well, consult one Adelina Fatti, if you plan a concert, or one her best? If not alone song, then music, then consult the great pianists, violinists, theater instrumentalists, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus,ville, Cleveland, Columbus, Springfield, and all of the greater cities of the South by means of spring, summer, autumn, winter music festival, such becoming fixed events in the life of the people in the world by means of art strivings, and much for the sake of art. Something to hold the race sane and fair, and that is not the guards of the world, and lead to sation and social dissipation. Music festivals are as hard-hour battles, but as long as the less, when such, does not fall on the promoters, they are able to sell more. Our greater singers should be called to take their seats paid at artists' rates. The many cities that could support them owing to their large Negro population should give all of their money to the four times each year, with pay ranging from $250 to $500 at each engagement. These figures may appear formidable, but will we rate our greatest at less? Would we rate the most popular domina, diva, or any of the high-chairmen apply, if we thought of them in other terms—that is, for less money? The same applies to the men singers, many of whom have spoken to us in a way at making them masters in their art. Then again, the race is getting a little too "cultish" in a given direction. If a woman is young and pretty to boot, she will be more likely to be in opposition to the disposition of other women. This also applies to men. Well, that's not art. The tendency to pass up those a little long in age is notable; it does not want to give up Irving, Booth, Barrett, McCullough, Jefferson, Emmett, Modjeska and a host of others that have passed away in these latter days. It does not want to give up Marlowe and others who have been long before the public. They hold them as some brands of wine, improving with age. It does not want to give up those that have ripened, provided they were the proper people in the beginning. Secretly, I rejoice to know that Sam Lucas is retained, and Billy Kersand, and I am grateful, although I do not hold them the best examples of the idea I am trying to set forth. The race is set in an opposing direction to the one outlined above. It is going contrary to its great endowment. In other times there were attempts at visiting other cities, and the view of profit-making, failing in this came the quietus. Bear in mind that every year great bodies of white singers meet, bearing their own expenses, and for some reason they sang. When the race returns and again takes up its effort of the past, it will do very much in the right direction. Music aroused will come about, pursued to a finish, loved for the sake of music. Old songs, old songs, old kowski, Handel, Chopin and the rest of the "saintts," and also the lesser lights, will come in for their own. SWEL. UNITED STATES DOES A LITTLE BUSINESS ON THE SIDE. It is not generally known that the United States does a little business on the side. It does, however, doing the coinage of the United States in the form of a big proposition, and most especially so in view of the little use a small republic would have for one. Considerable red tape is included in the bureaucracy of the United States to make its money. The minister, as envoy extraordinary, must communicate his wishes to our Secretary of State. This ocular makes notes on the subject and sends it to the Secretary of Treasury. At the same time the Secretary of State sends along a certificate showing that the minister is empowered by his state to order and receive minted coins. The Secretary of Treasury consults with the director of the mint, who makes his estimate and lets the Secretary know how much the job costs them back to the State. The State does the work to the Secretary orders the work to be done. The amount paid by the minister for the coins is kept a strict secret, for Uncle Sam doesn't want other countries to know what matters which give us their orders have to furnish the dies, for our laws do not permit the Treasury Department to make dies of the coin, but the coin is small, a pair of dies (on both side of the coin) coming to about $300. When the mint has done its work it notifies the president of State, and turns over to the express company which is to responsible for the delivery of the money. Halit seems to be better satisfied to have a private concern to do her work, and her company. Already a new lot of coins have been in the process of manufacture for the little republic, Venezuela, Panama, Santo Domingo, Costa Rica and others which work done by the United States government. DISCRETION. In discussing the Bishop Lampton incident, the Washington Bee takes the more sensible view of what is called his apology. It is in a recent issue. There is no reason to put that the apology is object—it is sickeningly so, and yet there is an excuse, for circumstances after cases. It is all very well for some people to say they want to fire and drink fire water, while enjoying the protection of their Northern homes. But what one of them—even to the Guardian man—will go South to morrow, or next week, and say and write the things they say and write in their Northern homes? "Bishop Lampton's property, his houses, and his lands, representing years of deprivation," he must depend to care for his family and support himself in his old age, are located in the South—right in the town out of which he was ordered. These things no longer make a factor in the writing of that letter. "Some of these nery, fire-eating, marty-loving Negro editors who eke out a precarious existence, and who preach war determinate orders, and who preach their doctrine of force and reprisal, in order to be consistent. This always bombarding the enemy a thousand miles away with guns that carry their preach their doctrine of force and reprisal of some Negro editors. If you have all the nerve you claim, and if you are as courageous as you would make people believe, why not go into the jungles of the Southwest? In the Southwest? If given a ticket, and guaranteed their expenses, and a good living, and a paid-up life insurance policy in the bargain, even Trotter would not go South and preach the defiance that he is preaching. Lampton's letter was an abject apology, and too abject, but, gentlemen, the North is not the South. Boston will spare Mr. Trotter for a few weeks until he goes to Brooklyn, and will spare Mr. Lark for the same period, and for the same mission." If you would keep abreast of the times you should read The Freeman each week at six months. 55 cents; one year, $1.50. Northwestern Park. Games played at home and abroad. We bar no good team. Correspondence solicited. 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Waists formerly priced at $2.50 both tailored and lingerie styles, at $89c. Tailored and lingerie waists that were selling as high as $3.00, at $1.29. Up to $4.00 waists, various tailored and lingerie styles. $1.98 Waists selling regularly up to $5.00, tailored or dressy styles, at $2.49. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND SOCIETY. Mr. Arthur Dodson spent Sunday at Louisville, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. A. Leins spent a day this week at Bridgeport. Miss Ada Morris has returned from a visit at Louisville, Ky. Mrs. N. A. Smoother and grandaughter Hortense, are visiting in Chicago. Mr. James Hill spent Sunday at Madison, Ind., the guest of his mother. Walter Price, a junior at Dartmouth College, is in the city for a brief stay. Mr. John Porter, a worker at Louisville, Ky., are the guest of friends. Bishop B. F. Lee was in the city Wednesday, en route to his home at Xenia. Julia Jones and daughter Alda, of St. Louis, are visiting Mrs. Anna Bowman. Miss Ambra Keene will come today to spend a few days with Mrs. Emma Parks. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bell left Monday for Louisville, Ky., for an indefinite stay. Will H. Beeler, a substantial business factor at Danville, Ill., was in the city St. Louis. Mrs. Jennie Lacey, of Chicago, is visiting Mrs. Anna Bowman, 515 Indiana avenue, city. Mesdames Gertrude Evans and Bertha Treston, of Louisville, are visiting Mrs. E. F. Stokes. Mrs. Alphonso Johnson, of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Pearl Sanders, in this city. Mrs. Jole Porter has joined Mrs. Nelle Allen at Pasadena, Cal. They will return in October. Mrs. M. E. Cable is spending two weeks at the new colored summer resort near Benton Harbor, Mich. Mrs. Robert Thomas and sons of Louise Robert, Thomas and her parents, Md. and Mrs. James Dickerson in State avenue. Mrs. Bettie Mattle, of Elizabethtown, Ky., has returned home after a two-weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Mayfield. Mrs. Cora B. Ash, of South Bend is spending the week with Miss Bertha Morgan, after a twelve days' trip to Niagara Falls and points in Canada. The board of managers of the Alpha Home will repeat their annual picnic at the Home grounds on Labor Day, Sept. 6. Cyrus Taylor, who has been disabled for a month on account of a broken ankle, has recovered sufficiently to resume his management of the Abyssinia Buffet. A Feast of Lanterns will be given Aug. 15 at the Yandus streets, by the Young Ladies' Business Club of Allen Chapel and the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Callie B. Brown left Aug. 15, on a prolonged visit to Mammoth Cave and other picturesque scenes in Kentucky, where she was joined by friend sand relatives. There will be a Grand Rally at Metropolitan Baptist church tomorrow, preach at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. by H. Andersen, the pastor of 3 m., by Dr. B. J. Bruce, of the Second Baptist. Mrs. Chas. Banks, wife of the first vice president of National Negro Business League, and cashier of a bank at Mound Bayon, Miss., is spending a few days in the city, the guest of Mrs. Dr. W. E. Brown. James N. Slimms, president of the Sun Bath Clothes Line Company, of Chicago. Ill., was the guest of his brother, Allen Slimms, from Louisville, Ky., where he was in attendance at the Business Men's League. Brutus Owens, the well known proprietor of the Boys' Exchange, left Tuesday for a short visit to his parents in Richmond, Va., for several years. Mr. Owens is a native of the "The Best at the Price No matter what the Price." MAROTT DEPARTMENT STORE COMPANY, 342 to 358 Mass. Ave. GROCERY SPECIALS Saturday Sale H & E. granulated sugar lb cloth bag in your order Saturday for... $1. Ivory or Fels - naptha soap, 12 bars for... 4 Jap rose toilet soap, 2 full size cakes. Beauty baked beans, 100cans 6 for 25c, or the can. Arm & Hammer soda, 1 lb. box 7c, the ½ lb. box. Dry lima beans, fresh and clean, 2 pounds. Pickles, relish or onions, 1 quart jar for... 2 Pure lard, 5 lb, pails 75c, the 3 lb. pails. High grade tomatoes or sugar corn, 2 cans. And with every 5c purchase you get Marott's Trading Stamps free. These will get you handsome premiums without any extra cost to you. Blue Grass state and will enjoy his visit hugely. Horace Turner, of Logansport, Ind., is recovering rapidly from an operation for appendicitis at the City Hospital here. His daughter from Logansport visited him Wendy. Messrs. W. S. Henry and Frank Williams have removed their law office to 46 North Pennsylvania street, Suite D, opposite the American National Bank. They have splendid quarters, and are open to Mrs. Cornelia A. Donnell will return to the city Sunday, after an eight-months' stay in New York City, the guest of her nephew, George W. Donnell, Mrs. Donnell was also the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, at Washington, D. C. this week. Thomas Albert Webber, a well known barber, of this city, died Thursday night of last week, from the result of an operation performed on Tuesday for stomach cancer. The funeral services were conducted at his late home under the auspices of the Pride of the West, K of P. Lodge, of which he was a member. Interment will be at his widow, mother and daughter, two brothers, two sisters and other relatives survive him. ENTERTAINED FOR MRS. R. BYRON SHELTON. Mrs. R. Byron Shelton, the wife of Mr. Shelton, of the team of Fiddler and Shelton, who is now accompanying her husbands, is now on a coastal, was highly entertained by her many old and new acquaintances while in St. Paul. Among the persons entertaining her were Mr. and Mrs. Will Moore, whistle; Mr. and Mrs. John Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, dancing and whistle; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Frances and Mr. and Mrs. Chatman, luncheon; Mr. and Mrs. Archer, whistle; Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Young, dinner; Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, whistle. THE NEW PARKER HOUSE. Take your meals in the beautiful new Parker House dining room. Regular meals 10:30 a.m. Prepared to serve banquets and dinner parties. You will like the 6 o'clock Sunday dinner; also the lunch from 12 to 2:30 a.m. Bath room. Bath room open to public, 15 cents. THE PURITAN BED SPRINGS. It has been proven beyond a doubt that science in perfect bed spring manufacture has perfected in the famous "Rest bed spring." Bed springs are also a direct indication of the physicians who are making a specialty in the treatment of rheumatism: These mattress springs are so constructed as to conform to the body's natural rest and relaxation, the permanent care of rheumatism will be greatly enhanced by their use. If your bed spring is not properly fitting the use of these springs afford more real comfort and rest than any on the market. They are made in Indianapolis and are sold everywhere. Literature on the subject gives extensive information for the asking. The Puritan Bed Spring Co., Indianapolis, Ind. A SERIES OF SOCIAL FUNCTIONS. MT. VERNON. IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Eliza Murray and son, and daughter were in the city visiting her sister, Lena Johnson.....Miss Rachel Turner, of Henderson, J. .....Miss Valerie Turner, of Lena Johnson, home from Terre Haute, where she has been attending the State Normal.....Mrs. Boone, the sister of E. Patterson, is visiting her niece, Mrs. M. Johnson, and home from Terre Haute, for his last quarter meeting for this year at Bethel A. M. E. Church. He preached an able sermon Sunday morning and night. He also held quarterly meeting at Brewers in Chicago, P. E. Church, and pleased with the general outlook of the church.....Mrs. Mary Thompson is spending two weeks with her sister, Bettie Slurant, in Chicago, P. E. Church, has been visiting Indiana, where he has been for several months.....Purrite Bishop has taken the civil service examination and made 811-0 per cent. He stood second in all the eight persons. He is near to the Order of the Order of Bernacchin in Evansville last week.——Henry Luckes spent a few days in the city last week and took dinner with his old friend H. J. Thompson, who is near to a close and Rev. White is sparing no pains to make it a success.....Mrs. Maggie Griffon, of Indianapolis, is visiting Mrs. Joe Foster. The decision is Saturday night was a success. Mrs. Bell and H. J. Thompson made quite a hit. PITTSBURG, PA. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER will not have to ask for their rights, but can demand it. ...On Monday last the District Grand Lodge G. U. O. O. F, held the first meeting of the Association of Ashtabula Harbor, on Aug. 31rd. A large crowd attended. Representatives from all over the state being present. ...Mrs. J. E. Wiley, the President of her vacation in Atlantic City. Her stay is indefinite. ...Mr. F. J. Lieveins well connected with the Broadham Co. is at present connected with the Scott Bailey Co. ...John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church will hold a service on Sunday at New Castle, Pa, on Aug. 31st. A bull game between the C. E. Club, vs. S. Taggers. Game called at 8:30 p. m. NATIONEL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Strong Organization Effected at Louisville in Connection with the National Negro Business League —R. W. Thompson Elected President. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 23.—Upwards of a hundred men and women representing the various colored journals, publishing houses, magazines and book-writers in the city, and a few noon in the assembly room of the colored Y. M. C. A., and effected a strong organization on permanent lines to be known as the Negro Business League, and decided to become an affiliated the National Negro Business League, to meet in annual session at the same time and place as selected by the parent organization, and to be affiliated with Washington. U. C. at whose suggestion the friendship was called together, was chosen temporary president, and Cary B. Lewis, of the regular staff of the Courier-Journal and Times, and THE FREEMAN, acted as secretary. The meeting was very spirited in character, and speeches, vigorous in tone, were made by leading editors, publishers, correspondents and general-writers, pointing out the pressing necessity for an organizational development of the Negro newspaper along substantial lines. All agreed that the Negro newspaper, to be effective, must increase its circulation, must find how to seize the opportunities of its mechanical equipment, so as to produce a clean, good-looking and influential publication. Among the principal speakers were George L. Knox, publisher of the Negro newspaper, and William H. Stimson, manager of the National Baptist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn.; M. M. Lewey, editor of the Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla.; J. A. Lankford, of Washington, D.C.; K. S. Stimson, Rock, Ark; representing the Mosaic Guide Publishing Company; Dr. L. G. Jordan, of the Missionary Herald, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Lillian Thomas-Fox, of the Indianapolis, Iowa; Mrs. Lewis of the Kokanee standard; Dr. P. Pappers, and W. H. Parker, of the Columbia, Louisville; Dr. R. E. Jones, of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La. Robert S. White dean of the Central School of the Negro newspaper, Lexington Standard, and others of like prominence. Capable Officers Elected A constitution and by-laws was adopted for the guidance of the body, and permanent by-laws were adopted for the following capable roster of officers: President, R. W. Thompson, manager of the Florida State University; Washington, D. C.; first vice-president, M. L. Weyler, manager of the Florida Sentel Publishing Company, Pensscola, Fla. Louisville, Ky.; recording secretary, Geo Louisville, Ky.; recording secretary, Geo M. B. MR. R. W. THOMPSON. President of the National Negro Press Association. F. Collins, Business League Herald, Washington, D. C.; corresponding secretary, Dr. L. G. Jordan, press treasurer, Dr. L. G. Jordan, secretary Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Louisville, Ky. The executive committee, as far as constituted, representing the various states as Colonel. Arkansas, Rev. E. C. Morris, president of the National Baptist Convention; Alabama, Rev. R. D. Hunt; District of Columbia, Bank of Louisiana, Ohio; J. Jones, Bank of Louisiana, Ohio; I. Jones, Rev. R. E. Jones; Maryland, Harry T. Pratt; Nebraska, T. P. Mahmett; Iowa, John L. Thompson; Florida, M. M. Lewis; Missouri, J. W. Wheeler; Texas, J. W. Wheeler; Virginia, P. B. Young; Kentucky, Miss Julia Sohners Young; Illinois, Noah D. Thompson; Colorado, E. P. Booze; Mississippi, Charles Banks; Indiana, George L. Knox; Tennessee, D. P. Hart; West I. McGirt; Massachusetts, Charles Alexander; New Jersey, W. E. Rock; Delaware, Samuel T. Henry; W. E. Nick Chiles. Other places will be filled later by appointment o the president. Provision was made for the occasion of special sections for the study of the various phases of journalistic work. A Word about President Thompson. It. W. Thompson, who was chosen president by a unanimous vote, after the withdrawal of the Mercer M. M. Lewis was been actively engaged in the newspaper business as an editor and correspondent for fully twenty-five years, and is highly regarded by his race all over the country. He is a native of Kentucky, although educated and reared in Indianapolis, and has a number of years of experience, and the editorial writer on THE FREEMAN and The World at Indianapolis, and the Colored American at Washington, D.C. For a period he was located at Tuskegee Institute as assistant to the secretary of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and the industrial idea has not a more ardent champion. Anyhow, than through the voice and peril of Mr. Thompson, he has devoted his time to the handling of syndicated matter for a chain of leading Negro newspapers, and is a frequent contributor to the Washington Evening Star at the national capital. Mr. Thompson is conceded to be one of the best-posted news of his race on issues affecting the mind of the quoted people. In order to guidance there is ever reason to believe that the infant National Negro Press Association will grow into a powerful agency for the uplift of our masses and classes. It is understood that the operations of the church are restricted to the business aspect of the new development, leaving all political or religious questions to the individual judgement. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN The delegates from the Court of Calanthe and K. P.'s left in a special train Saturday evening for Kansas City to attend the Grand Encampment....Mrs. E. Woolf, mother of Mrs. Jasper Roberts, left for Philadelphia, to attend the count of illness of her son-in-law. Her many friends regret her absence and with for her speedy return....Mrs. Cora B. King, mother of Mrs. Elizabeth King, Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn for three weeks. She goes to visit her friends in THE GRAND LEADER 336-338-340 EAST WASHINGTON ST. SCHOOL TIME IS NEAR! Now for Bargains Skirts for Women, of panama, plaited styles, trimmed in bands of satin, colors blue, brown and black; regular $3.98 values, sale price.....$1.98 Dresses for Children, new Fall school dresses have arrived, we are showing an excellent line of fancy worsted dresses, sizes 6 to 14 years, for.....98c Children's School Hose, fast black ribbed hose, sizes 5 to 9½, hisle finish; regular 12½ qualities sale price, 3 for 25c; pair.....10c Open Saturday Night UNTIL 9:30 Chicago.....Rev. J. C. Steward, who for years was a member of the Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C., is supplying him with the necessary equipment. His sermons are enjoyed by interested and attentive congregations....The funeral of Mrs. Minnie Gardner Blair, who was ill for several months, was held at St. Peters Church in Chicago. The funeral of Mrs. of Chicago is visiting Mrs. T. H. Brigham....The Ladies of the Dorcas Society had a picnic at White Bear Lake, Wednesday, to be the first one ever held. The club is the only city in Minnesota State Fair will open Sept. 6th, continuing through the entire week. It will be to the best one ever held. The club is working forward to the annual State Federation meeting to be held in Duluth in September....Mrs. Lulu Howard, of St. Paul, will be visiting the club to meet friends. She expects to leave soon for an extended visit in Californias....Mr. and Mrs. Van Hook and daughter will return to Duluth soon, about September 1st....Master James F. Wilson and mother, who have been visiting in Duluth, have returned after a pleasant stay in Chicago. She will be given by the young people of St. Peter's Church at Dania Hall Tuesday evening, August 26, 1909. WASHINGTON, PA Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Edith Moor, of the city, is visiting friends in Onee, New York. ... Steven Batch was in Monongahela, Thursday, tending the wedding of his sister. ... Mrs. Fred Marshall, of Canonsburg, and niece, Miss Green, of New York, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson. ... Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Asvury have returned home after several days visit to Buffalo and the lakes. ... John Mosby, of this city, was taken to the hospital with fever. ... Miss Phoebe Allen, of Franklin, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Stewart ... Harry Blake, of Homestead, was the guest of Miss Emily Mosbey last Sunday. ... The Young Men's Bible Class will install officers the coming Sabbath. ... Mr. William Hays, a well known young man of this city, has purchased the Wicks Cafe, corner of College and Chestnut Sts. First-class service is guaranteed. ... Miss Hettie Cox, who departed this life last week, is the sister of the late James Hall, the well known stage man. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN The following indicates attended the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Chain Lake Baptist Association, which convened at Grand Rapids, Mich.: Mrs. Dora Griffin, Emily Griffin, Mrs. Elsie Guy, Mr. George Dickson, the Misses Ruth and Annie Harris and Erie McGruder, and Magter Gladner Williams. The association will meet at Chain Lake, Mich., next year... Mrs. Mary Donley, who has been visiting Mrs. Robert Kimball, left Saturday for Grand Rapids, Mich., accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. R. Kimball....Mrs. George Marshall and daughter are visiting in Chicago, Ill.... Mrs. Jenny Grayson was in Grand Rapids, attending the association...Mrs. Golings and daughter, of Kokomo, Ind., and Mr. John Evans and daughter, of Volinia, Mich., were in the city visiting the guests of Mrs. G. Tolls of 63 Warren street...Miss Harriet Lewis, the trained nurse of the Santarium, has left for Bridgewater, S.D., for a extended trip. Master Laurel Williams died at the home of his mother in Detroit. The prizes were hanrsome. The Dutch lunch was par excellence. The table was decorated in blue and white. BUSINESS LOCALS. Full Styles School Shoes now in. Call and see them. Big 4 Shoe Store, 352 West Washington street. The Eureka Comb is on sale at The Freeman office, 225 Indiana avenue. Order your ice from Mrs. Bell Davis, 919 N. West street. Both phones, 1374. Delivered on short notice. Phone your wants to us. We call for and deliver prescriptions, anything ordered, phone will be selected carefully as if you called in person. No extra charges. Gauld's Pharmacy. 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